Re: Plant Police

Zem, while you're at it, take their hedge clippers away.
Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant Police


> The worst offenders around here are the develoers who want their
> subdivisions to look good.  My daughter just bought a new house that has a
> Viburnum macrocephalum as a foundation plant along with Burford hollies
> shaped into little meatballs.  Everything is so crammed together.  I told
> her next fall we are going to take it apart.  I hope she and my son-in-law
> will let me move those shrubs (and trees) out to the edge of their yard
and
> away from the house.
> zem
> zone 7
> West TN
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "A A HODGES" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant Police
>
>
> >I KNOW! My personal favorite is the Leyland Cypress as a "entry way"
tree.
> > LOL! That always just makes me roll my eyes, OH OH, AND we have this one
> > house in the neighborhood, again, the houses in my subdiv are basically
> > about 1400-1800 sg feet, so not huge by any means. The ENTIRE front yard
> > is
> > ringed with Leyland Cypress, planted about 3-5 feet apart. I wonder if
> > they
> > know in five years you won't be able to see their
house.......fascinating
> > I
> > tell you.
> >
> > And the mulch volcanoes are another favorite of mine. Sigh, again I just
> > roll my eyes.
> > A
> >
> > Andrea H
> > Beaufort, SC
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing Center
> > <4042N15@nationalhearing.com>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 6/13/2005 10:41:40 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Plant Police
> >>
> >> Andrea,
> >> You are so right.  My first attempts at gardening were disasters
because
> >> I
> >> had no background at all.  So I read and took classes and started to
> >> experience success..  Of course there were still failures (still ARE),
> >> but
> >> fewer.  Can't get it all from books; need to get right in there and
do -
> > and
> >> keep doing.
> >>
> >> Plant Police - they could spend half their time pulling mulch volcanoes
> > off
> >> trees here.  What bugs me too, in addition to ignoring scaling plants
to
> > the
> >> surroundings, is that people hug the house.  They spend all this money
on
> >> shrubs and tres and plant them just inches from the house, leaving a
huge
> >> expanse of lawn, while the plants all look squished and lean out.  Why?
> >> don't they realize that plants GROW?
> >>
> >> Kitty
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "A A HODGES" <hodgesaa@earthlink.net>
> >> To: "gardenchat" <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 7:08 PM
> >> Subject: [CHAT] Plant Police
> >>
> >>
> >> > As my friend and I drove back from Hilton Head yesterday we had a
> >> > discussion about the lack of knowledge that many people have about
> >> > gardening. What seems so "common sense" to us is obviously foreign to
> >> > many when it comes to planting. A co-worker had commented to me last
> >> > week that she was born with a brown thumb. I told her that was
> >> > ridicuouls, that everytthing she needed to know could be found in
most
> >> > libraires and on the internet. Why do people assume that others are
> >> > "born" with a green thumb? I've killed MANY plants and still do. It's
> >> > basically read and learn as you go.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, on the road yesterday my friend and I were talking about this
> >> > and how many houses have these horrible landscapes with plants either
> >> > completelyt in the wrong spot, or just the wrong plant period.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > She commented that there needed to be a "plant police" force in our
> >> > area
> >> which of course we laughed uproariously to about.
> >> >
> >> > Well, obviously, she was right. As we drove home through my
subdivision
> >> > we noticed this TINY little house with these GIANT (I swear these
> >> > things
> >> > are 6 feet tall and wide) Agave plants on each side of the driveway,
> >> > like it was some huge hacienda out in New Mexico or something. Of
> >> > course
> >> > we immediatley said, see they need a visit from the plant police.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Well tonight, I went for a walk. I rounded a curve and litterally did
> >> > gasp out loud. A house that was recently sold, now has a straight
line
> >> > of three corn plants (the house plant not the vegetable) right smack
in
> >> > the front lawn like littel sentries. OH my Lord, it is hideous. It
was
> >> > previously a beautiful lawn, if needing a bit more landscaping, but
for
> >> > the Love of God, not that kind.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I think we should petition a new show on HGTV called the Plant
Police.
> >> Obviosuly, we need it!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Andrea H
> >> > Beaufort, SC
> >> >
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