Re: Keep your hedge trimmed or else

**c* g* <c*@gmail.com>**

I spent every summer as a kid in East Hampton.  There was an unwritten code
among us that if you picked any leaves off the hedges in front of Billy
Mars' house he would come running out and pull your pants down.  Needless to
say, a lot of girls ran quickly past the house, then turned around and ran
past again - and again, picking off privet leaves on the fly to see what
might happen.  In those days the hedges weren't quite so massive and
blockade-like at the front of quite so many houses.  When I returned a few
years ago after several decades I was dismayed to see so many blocky hedges
hiding all the houses in place of what used to be wild roses along weathered
wood split rail fences, sycamore trees, and other boundary-defining but more
open plantings.

There's probably a joke about hedge and hedge fund managers somewhere in
here?

Jane

Jane Shellenberger
Publisher, Colorado Gardener
www.coloradogardener.com
303 774-1180
303 774-8399 fx
cogardener@gmail.com
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