Re: More demons of ignorance, arrogance, and darkness

Sickening; just sickening.  It looks like that jerk left some of the
DG bits on the palm...do you think, Jim, there's enough for it to
come back again? 

I sure hope the locals are letting that city park dept. have it with
both barrels.  Don't they have a training program before they let
these guys loose?  I suppose not; just hire the cheapest labor going
as per usual.

It's probably a sign of aging, but it seems to me that a larger
proportion of the "employees" of any given entity one comes in
contact with these days were born one brick shy of a load and proud
of it.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
Shadyside Garden Designs


> 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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