Re: Names, Tractor Tires and Bedsteads
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- Subject: Re: Names, Tractor Tires and Bedsteads
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 20:24:09 -0600 (MDT)
Walter A. Moores wrote:
>
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.
>
> Had it not been for the bed of purple irises, this would have been
> off topic.
>
> Thank goodness, all of these 'flower beds' are all north of the
> Mason-Dixon Line!
>
An idea worthy of Martha Stewart. And no magazine would probably print
what things might be planted in what things SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon
line. I might just have to buy an American flag and put it in the
garden (on a pole, of course).
Rima terra@catskill.net
upstate ny zone 4
