Re: Lists

> I've never cared for boxwood hedges...
I don't care for squared off hedges either, but I have a few box with
beautiful natural form.  What really bugs me around here is Forsythia.
Almost everyone seems to hack them into cube shapes, losing the flowers and
the graceful shape.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pam Evans" <gardenqueen@gmail.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Lists


> Agreed.  I like the natural look myself, but I may take that a bit far
> in the other direction - LOL.  I've never cared for boxwood hedges,
> usually because they get sheared into these unnatural rectangles that
> I do not care for.  They just look stunted and fake.
>
>
> On 5/13/05, Theresa <tchessie@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Oh- all of the green spaces here, and along the roads, and parks get
> > butchered to death.  Supposedly they prune- but I personally don't think
> > every shrub in the world should look like a marble, nor should every
> > tree look like a meatball on a stick. I do understand the excessive
> > pruning thing....
> >
> > Theresa
> >
> > A A HODGES wrote:
> >
> > >Curtail excessive pruning? of what exactly? I can understand protesting
the
> > >butchering of Live Oaks by the power company, but just how far do these
> > >people go?
> > >A
> > >
> > >Andrea H
> > >Beaufort, SC
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>[Original Message]
> > >>From: james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > >>To: Garden Chat <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > >>Date: 5/13/2005 5:21:56 PM
> > >>Subject: [CHAT] Lists
> > >>
> > >>Anyone ever taken the tour of garden chat lists on Yahoo? Scary. More
> > >>than 800 of them. They seem to be arranged in descending order by
> > >>number of members, For example, Plant Amnesty, a group that wants to
> > >>curtail excessive pruning, is listed somewhere toward the middle of
the
> > >>list; it has 22 members. A fair number of them--I didn't keep
> > >>count--are merchants offering expert advice on gardening questions.
> > >>Yeah, sure.
> > >>
> > >>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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> Pam Evans
> Kemp TX
> zone 8A
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