Re: gardening giggle

**A*@aol.com**

Who identified the creeping charlie?  Sometimes things look very similar to 
something else.  

I'd like to praise Lon for finding and publicizing: 

http://www.co.mo.md.us/services/dep/Landscape/pears.htm

This is credible testimony to the argument that callery pears should not be 
used at all on public property.  About a year ago Mike Dirr wrote in NMPro 
that Pyrus calleryana "rob generations."  I think he meant succeeding 
generations of people who plant those trees, as well as whoever was so 
uninformed as to plant them.  I recall one woman who was in her middle 
seventies when she had planted a callery pear.  The tree split into several 
pieces during a snow event that occurred about two years before she died.  
The tree lasted less than 10 yrs.

Barbara
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