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Re: [GWL]: More idiotic customers
To Nellie Neal
Are you still doing a radio show? Which station and days? I have a friend
there who wants to know.
Suzanne Pierot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nellie Neal" <nelzgarden@hotmail.com>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL]: More idiotic customers
> One more for you: I got an early lesson in local notions when I began to
do
> radio gardening 7 years ago here in Mississippi. Among my first callers
when
> I was guest hosting for Felder Rushing was a lady wanting to know when to
> prune her Hygeraniums. If she'd asked me how to make them blue, I'd have
> known she was interested in Hydrangeas!
> And of course there's the controversial Leeryope (Liriope, rhymes with
> calliope) and down here, we say pe-O-ny and cle-O-me, with accents on the
> long o's.
> Just fyi, for more really deep south exposure, check out a new movie on
PBS
> Masterpiece Theatre in your local area's educational tv for 'The Ponder
> Heart', a story by Eudora Welty set in the 1930's and filmed here in
central
> Mississippi last year. I haven't seen it yet, but working on it as
greensman
> was a labor of love - can't say I'm the biggest fan Miss Welty ever had,
but
> I am devoted to the plants she wrote about and grew. I was able to use
> Camellias from her garden in the scenes filmed in the church as specified
in
> her text and that's a real pleasure.
> Nellie Neal
> 'The Gardenmama'
> Jackson, MS
>
>
> >From: Dan Heims <hortiholic@home.com>
> >Reply-To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
> >To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
> >Subject: [GWL]: More idiotic customers
> >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:41:33 -0700
> >
> >I ran a design/build landscape company for 20 years.
> >I was well-known for filling the raised beds with the luscious blend of
> >sandy loam, municipal compost, manure, kelp meal, green sand and lime for
> >pH balance . I built 8 large beds for a "city farmer" in the center of
> >Portland. As a zuccini lover- he planted 14 hills of it thinking that
you
> >get 1 zuccini per plant! :)
> >-Dan Heims, GWAA
> >
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