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Re: Re: Who's the Audience (let's be honest)

To me the big issue is what kind of gardener is your editor. A complete non-gardener? (This has happened to me several times, and can be quite painful.) A furniture mover? (As one woman said to me, "I love saying to someone, put it there." The problem is a complete lack of empathy for plant material.) A dabbler? (My favorite kind.) An expert? (I've never worked for one of these, but I think there could be trouble if the editor were enormously opinionated.)

And how about those fact-checkers, for those of you writing for general interest magazines? I wrote an article once on herb gardening, and the fact-checker ran all the info by the five nursery people I interviewed (in different parts of the country), who all disagreed on little details like sun requirements and drainage needs for specific plants. The poor woman went nuts trying to get them to reach a consensus. Drove me nuts, too, with her daily reports of their bickering. I'm sure the nursery people didn't love her either.

Nancy Stedman
At 09:09 PM 3/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:

On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 17:43:27 -0500 "C.L. Fornari" <clfornari@mail.com>
writes:
> Let's be honest: if you could afford a staff to do most of the
> gardening, and so could have the garden of your dreams and limit
> your
> labor to the tasks that appealed to you, wouldn't you be happy?

An interesting question. And I think -- this might surprise you -- the
answer is no. I enjoy the act of gardening, and certainly the results are
part of it, the gravy you might say, but it is the process that is most
important to me.

Here, perhaps, is an indicator whether one is most interested in the
process or the product. Given the choice between a seedling or very young
plant and a landscape sized ready-to-impress one, even in the unlikely
event they were both the same price, I'd take the seedling. I want to
watch it grow up. A full sized knock-your-socks-off shrub or perennial
wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

D

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