RE: new purchases

> probably wasn't the kind of information you were looking for though.
Au Contrare!!!  (surely not spelled right!)
Linda, 
Funny story, after the fact.  Good thing Mrs. Jewell wasn't 5 feet closer.
I don't mind waiting a while for shrubs to get bigger.  We have a mature
one at our display gardens and I am quite taken with the flowers, so
somday, when I'm doing windows I'll have crushed alspice to cook with!
Kitty
(yes, I know it isn't the spice)


> [Original Message]
> From: Linda L Wallpe <lwallpe@juno.com>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 2/19/2003 10:45:15 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] new purchases
>
> Kitty,
>
> What I have to say about Calycanthus floridus, CAROLINA ALSPICE will not
> be of much use until it's a large bush.
>
> When we moved back to Cincinnati, we rented the first floor of a large,
> old house from an older couple who lived on the the top two floors.  Mrs.
> Jewell was a gem of a gardener  and she had 3 mature, sweet shrubs under
> our bedroom window.
>
> Well, one day I was washing windows.  These were really large, tall
> windows in 3 sections.  I flipped up one too many sections, forgot to
> hold on,  and fell backwards right out of the window into one of the
> bushes.  Unfortunately, Mrs. Jewell was working about 5 feet away in her
> perennial bed and nearly had a stroke.  I think it was concern over my
> body but it may have been about the bush.  
>
> I can attest to the fact that Calycanthus floridus, CAROLINA ALSPICE will
> greatly slow down a falling body, smelling sweetly at the same time.  I
> was only slightly scratched but I gave up serious window washing.  This
> probably wasn't the kind of information you were looking for though.
>
> Linda Wallpe
> Cincinnati, Zone 6a
> Only $9.95 per month!
> Visit www.juno.com
>
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