Re: Names, Tractor Tires and Bedsteads

Walta, up to no good, remarked: 

<< 	Earlier, this summer there was a discussion of using tractor tires
 as flower beds.  Well, in the latest issue of BIRDS AND BLOOMS, there are
 pictures of old bedsteads sunk in the ground and flowers called 'quilts'
 blooming within the bedstead.  One is filled with ELEANOR ROOSEVELT or
 CRIMSON KING.  The four pictures came from widely scattered gardens in
 Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and South Dakota..... 	Thank goodness, all of
these 'flower beds' are all north of the  Mason-Dixon Line!
 
This business of bedsteads is not purely a Nawthun phenomenon, but it may be
latitude-specific. In the May 1994 issue of Gardens Illustrated, a very fine
and toney British Gardening magazine, is a picture of a garden in the
Chiltern Hills in which is found a bed bed. A rusty iron bed has been
tastefully situated on the lawn and bordered with grey stone pavers. Within
the frame, on the bed as it were, are two recumbant forms made of chicken
wire which were molded over the prostrate bodies of two people. They appear,
verily, to be cradled in the arms of Morpheus. Over these wire forms grow
creeping thymes. I can't say I like it. It lacks nuance and it is pretty
disturbing in some ways. The "bodies" remind me of those casts they made of
the people who got caught in the eruption at Pompeii way back when, which
have always given me the willies.

The tire aesthetique is a practical one and I have been giving it some
thought from time to time, but not much. I have decided that if Dahliaman is
using a car tire to contain his "walking iris", perhaps we should give
serious consideration to using  tractor tires to contain those ultimate
"travelers", Louisianas. 

Anner Whitehead---Not just whistlin'  Dixie in Richmond, VA
Henry Hall  henryanner@aol.com
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