Re: CULT: dark musings about irisarians
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: dark musings about irisarians
- From: i*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 06:20:36 EDT
In a message dated 4/28/2000 9:32:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
lmann@mailhub.icx.net writes:
<< Irisarians have to be the most optimistic people I've ever run across -
we 'see' our iris patch in the most idealized mode imaginable. >>
Hey Linda:
That's not irisarians - that's GARDENERS.
Gardening is all about hope and faith. The hope that the plants you've
placed will perform - and if they don't, the faith that they WILL.
The extraordinary thing about gardening is that it's all about the future.
We dream and plan for next year, we plant for next year, we fertilize,
hybridize, weed and nuture - all for a time subsequent to the time we are in.
That's why we're all so damn YOUTHFUL looking. (:
Some garden platitudes that come to mind:
"Wait till next year...."
"A perennial is a plant that, had it lived, would have come back year after
year..."
"I consider every plant hardy until I've killed it myself three times..."
"In a normal year (understanding that the last 'normal year' was in 1923..."
"If everything you planted lived, you are not trying ...."
"If you planted everything you bought, you didn't buy enough..."
"IF!"
Kathy Guest - who is nothing but optimistic in
East Aurora, NY
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