Re: More demons of ignorance, arrogance, and darkness

That sucks!

Probably didn't know what he was doing...obviously!

Part time summer help I presume?

Donna

--- james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:

> Last evening I got an e-mail from a reporter in the
> Venice bureau of 
> the Sarasota Herald. She found me via "Dave's
> Garden." She wanted to 
> know if she could quote something I'd written on DG
> about night 
> blooming cereus. Then she asked me if I was aware of
> what had happened 
> to one of 80-year-old night blooming cereus plants
> in an older 
> neighborhood on Venice island. I said I wasn't.
> 
> Turns out that a woman, Ms. Ruth, now in her 80s,
> "planted" night 
> blooming cereus on two palm trees [Phoenix
> canariensis] in the median 
> in front of her house in the mid-1940s. I don't know
> which genus of NBC 
> they are--they're an epiphyte and their vegetative
> body is cylindrical, 
> about the diameter of a hot dog but in much longer
> stems. For the last 
> 30 or so years, the annual blooming of these two
> plants has been 
> occasion for a block party; many neighbors gathered
> in Ms. Ruth's front 
> courtyard at sundown and waited until the cacti
> flowers open.
> 
> Last year, the reporter told me, the assembled
> neighbors counted more 
> than 200 blooms. It must have been beyond glorious.
> 
> About a week ago, a young city park's department
> employee cut the NBC 
> off one of the palms before he could be stopped. "I
> was told to clean 
> up street trees," he said. "And I thought this one
> was ugly." Here are 
> two pictures I took this AM; one is of the remaining
> "ugly" tree, the 
> other is of the beautified tree. If you know
> anything about pruning P. 
> canariensis, you'll find the beautified tree looks
> like it was trimmed 
> by Freddy Krueger.
> 
> http://snipurl.com/pnxg
> 
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> 
>
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