way off topic--tractor tires & pink flamingos
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- Subject: way off topic--tractor tires & pink flamingos
- From: A* R* <r*@qni.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 22:20:29 -0600 (MDT)
At 04:00 PM 7/10/97 -0600, Walter A. Moores wrote:
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>On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Slc.dennis Bishop wrote:
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>> N > i also have the walking iris that grows in a tire.
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> Don't you just love those 'tire' beds as accents in the garden?
>Frank Chowning used to use abandoned tubs from automatic clothes washers.
>I would add a few of the new crop of pink flamingoes that are being
>revived. Art deco, I think. Sorta adds a 1930's touch.
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Just couldn't resist this particular thread...I can remember growing up
when it seemed like every other yard (if not every yard) had a big tractor
tire painted white and plunked down in the middle of the yard as a
flowerbed. Never thought anything about it, at least while we were living
in NC. Then came to the midwest, and in our little suburban paradise, it
seemed that tractor tires, pink flamingos and lawn jockeys were considered
quite tacky. Trailer-trash, don't you know. Well, a few weeks ago, I
happened to run up to the Tractor Supply for birdseed, and overheard
someone asking about buying a tractor tire for make a flower-bed with!
Could have knocked me over with a feather. Especially since this is the
same neighborhood where homeowners recently protested so loudly over the
prospect of Orscheln Farm & Home opening that the business pulled out.
(They didn't want to see farm implements in their neighborhood. Thought it
would drive down property values.)
Tractor Supply also had pink flamingos, and those nifty little resin deer
lawn ornaments. They did, however, draw the line at lawn jockeys.....
Angie Rayfield
Olathe KS/zone 5
My iris didn't bloom this year, but you should see my coreopsis!
