Re: OT-HUMOR: Singin' in the Can

From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>

Hi Jan,

I forget, but I believe a lot of this string was due to your hail storm.
Well, if anybody on this robin can relate, I guess it would be me, having
had hail (fortunately, not too much) the night *before* 450 folks came
traipsing through my garden at a national convention!  A very demoralizing
feeling, for sure.  But, looking up the road 3 miles at "neighbors" who
don't have a garden -- *or* a house -- to traipse through, kinda puts a lot
of stuff in perspective around here.

No, playing to the iris folks during the banquet is as close as I care to
get.  Your mentioning piping music to the garden brought back a memory of a
grower (no name or state identified, OK?) I know who does this.  Except he
likes to think he is some kind of sophisticate, has just enough money in his
bank account to be arrogant and obnoxious, and for sure thinks he has good
taste.  Slap a "pseudo" in front of each, and you have it. <G, I think>.
His idea of gardening is to hire a truckload of landscapers to come and
clean out the place -- a week before the local tour, spends thousands of
dollars of full-grown, fully-blooming plants to landscape with, then goes to
the liquor store and buys whatever it is you buy to make a few gallons of
mint juleps.  Then he's set for bloom season.  Never mind he doesn't put out
any tags so that, if you do visit, you don't know what you're looking at.
And, heaven forbid, he's *way* too disorganized for even *think* of a garden
chart!  Oh well, guess it takes all kinds, eh?  I'm sure Martha Stewart
would *not* be pleased, though.

(Ooh, I just reread that last paragraph, and it sure was tacky.  I either
had a double-portion of Meow Mix for breakfast, or I'm still not fully
recovered from my post-convention traumatic syndrome.  Severe fatigue brings
out the dark side in me).

Anyhow, if I were to play the type of classical music I normally listen to,
I'm not sure how the flowers would react.  I lean towards 20th century
composers such as Stravinsky, Prokofieff, Shostakovich, Alberto Ginastera,
Samuel Barber, and Scriabin.  Hey, maybe that's what Brad Kasperek did to
get all those wonderful novelty-things with their splish-splashed blossoms
and variegated foliage....

Perry Dyer
Pretty Bizarre in Blanchard, OK

>Perry,
>    Yes, but do you sing to your irises?   Seems talking to plants was all
>the rage to help growth oh, back a few years.   I read somewhere that they
>studied the effects of different types of music on plants with Heavy Metal
>stunting growth, Classical having the best overall effect along with "easy
>listening" type...I believe they said plants were indifferent to Country
>Music and Pop.   Perhaps remote located speakers in the garden as you play
>the piano???
>
>Janet Natale zone 8 of S.C.


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