Re: Re: Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???

Marge, I generally refer to those types as a waste of space, or my new
personal favorite from a book I'm reading, " a waste of skin."
HA!
Andrea H
Beaufort, SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [CHAT] Buddleia davidii a noxious weed???


> > From: gardenqueen@academicplanet.com
> > Like our friend Jesse says folks "repeat after me, People are
> STUPID"
> ----------
>
> Well, Pam, there are a lot of folks out and about who are two bricks
> shy of a load and you wonder how they manage to get up; get through
> the day and back to bed at night in one piece.
>
> But, when it comes to developers, there is another factor at play.
> MONEY.  Developers build to make money...period.  They have no taste;
> they do not care what they do to the environment nor what the end
> product looks like (nor what the quality is - it will be as low as
> they can get away with; no matter how expensive the house).  They
> want to put the maximum number of units on any given piece of ground;
> get them up as fast as possible, sell them as fast as possible; get
> out and go on to the next lot.
>
> When a developer gets hands on some ground and hires a civil engineer
> or land planner to lay out the development, they don't pay one bit of
> attention to what the ground actually does in three dimensions nor
> what's on it - unless it's wetland or something else they have to
> deal with  - they just lay out the maximum number of lots that can be
> legally crammed on it.  Developments with 'common space' got that
> because it wasn't buildable for some reason OR because with it the
> developer could increase the density on the rest of the property.
> It's all about $$$$.
>
> Buyers of what they produce are also governed more by money than
> taste...they want the most house they can get for the least amount of
> money.   In some cases, it's simply that they can actually afford one
> of the ticky-tacky houses and could not get a loan to buy anything
> better.
>
> I have maintained for several years that people who buy some of the
> tract mansions around here have to sign a paper that states "I am
> totally tasteless" before they can even go in to look at the house;
> the builders have to do the same before they can file for a permit.
> It's a vast, tasteless conspiracy out there:-)
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> mtalt@hort.net
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