Re: IRIS-L digest 1005

I feel like I have to address this one more time. You guys keep talking
about heirloom var. and other things. I'm sorry but my heirlooms that my
family has passed down is with me being taken care of, not in a grown up
area receiving no attention. How important could those flowers have been to
anyone if they weren't even being taken care of? I'm sorry, I know it
doesn't make it right but at least someone now is enjoying them and I bet
taking real good care of them. I can't imagine if I had special flowers that
my mother left to me letting them grow up and be surrounded by weeds. I
think if they were so important I would have moved them from the old barn
and put them in my yard where I could enjoy them. If  anyone out there is
wondering, yes, I do have all different kinds of flowers that different
people have given or left me and yes they are all in my yard where I can
enjoy their blooms. Look around your house and then answer me this:  Where
is your heirlooms, there around you or out at an old barn somewhere?

Peggy Hannah
phannah@glasgow-ky.com
enjoy the blooms.
-----Original Message-----
From: william b. cook <billc@atlantic.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <iris-l@rt66.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: IRIS-L digest 1005


>>
>> from: Peggy Hannah
>>  I believe my Mom had a wonderful saying for this one " People who live
>in
>> glass houses shouldn't throw stones." or in other words" sweep around
>your
>> own doorstep first." Everyone of us is guilty of something like this no
>one
>> is perfect, I'm just glad Teresa will enjoy the flowers. Someone out
>there
>> would like that.
>>
>     Peggy is correct here.  Even though I would not remove plants from
>abandoned (or seemingly abandoned) property now, I remember once having
>done this.  Once I came to the conclusion of having done something not
>quite right, the area was bulldozed for a shopping center before I ever
>learned who's land it was.
>     The several times I was tempted to remove a few plants, I asked for
>and was granted permission.  Then, I removed only the few pieces which I
>felt were most likely to be destroyed.
>     Here in Florida, one can get some jail time if caught removing plants
>growing along a road.  This is because many tourists from colder climates
>would take wild Florida plants to colder climates where they perished.
>Thus, a number of native species became endangered.
>     For the last several weeks, the road sides in this area have been
>adorned with a riot of color from some type of Wild Phlox.
>     Thinking of native plants, I have not mowed the yard yet because it is
>a blanket of several types of wildflowers.  [Dennis Bishop:  It is legal to
>remove things from one's own property, you are not forgotten.  Some
>Sisyrinchium atlanticum will come your way soon.  I will try to get it out
>in a few days.]
>     Teresa did not mean any harm by removing the plants.  However,
>permission should be had first.  Many of the plants growing in such sites
>are rare, heirloom varieties, and it would be a shame for them to be
>bulldozed.
>
>Mark A. Cook
>billc@atlantic.net
>Dunnellon, Florida.
>
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