Re: southern gardening

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

If any of you saw a product marketed or advertised as for the 
southern garden, say a fertilizer or an herbicide...what would that 
covey to you? Flowers? Veggies? all?

jems

>I don't know if I'm typical, but from Alabama:  I call my flower gardens my
>"garden," and my vegetable garden the "vegetable garden."  I also have a
>"berry garden" (blackberries, raspberries, strawberries), and a garden
>section called the "blueberry corner."  However, I think if you say
>"garden," most southerners still think you mean a vegetable garden.  When I
>mention my garden to people, I sometimes have to clarify what kind of garden
>I mean.
>
>The times seem to be changing, though.  We (the Master Gardeners here) are
>constructing a demonstration garden which will be for ornamentals, not
>vegetables.
>
>Garden never refers to landscaping in general here.
>
>  Linda Schaffner
>
>___________________________________________________
>Subject: [GWL] southern gardening
>
>
>>  What do southerners call their gardens? Does garden mean veggies or
>>  flowers or both? Do landscape and flower garden mean the same thing?
>  > >
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