Re: OT-BIO: Roger Gelder
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- Subject: Re: OT-BIO: Roger Gelder
- From: c* s* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 20:57:37 -0500
From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
Roger Gelder writes:
>I have several of
>the sisyrinchiums, as well as some of the tall bearded, but I have 3
>families of blackbird in the garden - the curious, inquisitive sort who
>have to check every damn label by pulling it out, so what I still grow,
>only the blackbirds know.
Welcome, welcome, Roger! I look forward to learning more about your growing
experiences in such an unusual (to me) soil.
As for your blackbirds' carrying off your plant names, a fellow countryman
of yours, Graham Spencer, once entertained the Iris-L list mightily with
sallies about planting our gardens full of stones. I forget exactly what
bit of conversation set him off, but somewhere in the flurry of exchanges
someone suggested a labeling practice that might just solve your problem.
This person found lovely flat stones, wrote each plant's moniker on the
bottoms of those stones and then placed them, name down, beside the plants.
I assume a big enough stone would survive bird attacks.
celia
s*@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
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