Re: Fw: Ode to the Catalogs

Oh, Marge!  That is terrific - and so timely.  I just spent the last 4 days
coordinating wish lists into catalog orders for our display gardens. I've
finshed writing everything up and I will hand in the stack of orders for 30
companies to the tune of about $3500.00 tomorrow morning.  Believe me, there
was a lot of juggling and rewriting involved to find the best way to buy
everything.  I'm going to put a copy of your poem on the top of the stack.

Kitty
neIN, Z5

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Fw: Ode to the Catalogs


> Hi Gang, found this deep in my overloaded inbox from someone on
> Trillium list - thought 'How True, How True'...thought some of
> you-all might agree:-)
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
> Editor:  Gardening in Shade
> Shadyside Garden Designs
>
> ===================
>
>         "Ordering from the Catalogs"
> My caution goes numb when the catalogs come,
> No way will it end for the good.
> Cold winter without, but the spring pages shout,
> "You better buy more than you should."
>
> Some flowers, some seed:  I just check what I need.
> The total?  Five hundred and ten!
> A terrible blow, so back I must go.
> The list must be pruned some and then...
>
> It's still way too high.  I almost can cry.
> The visions of glory are fading,
> Cross out and erase.  A perennial case
> of not enough cash.  How degrading.
>
> The list now is brief after pain and much grief.
> The numbers, though, still wreck my budget.
> Much more must be cut.  I economize, but
> The truth...well, I'm going to fudge it.
>
> For I cannot say no to the flowers that glow
> On the page and then after, the garden.
> So what if I blunder?  The balance goes under.
> I'll look to the bank for a pardon.
>
> All shame be to them if their view is so grim
> That money they count more than beauty.
> As for me, I must grow every flower I know,
> For that, I believe, is my duty.
>
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