Re: RE/HUMOR: educating the mass
- Subject: Re: RE/HUMOR: educating the mass
- From: c* s*
- Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 11:15:38 -0600
From: celia storey <storey@aristotle.net>
Hey all,
Iris education advanced one giant step this weekend here at the Storey
household. As some of you may remember (and I'm sure you do, because of
course everyone scampered to make notes in his gardening journal as soon as
I announced it) the vivid purple and white TB CITY LIGHTS is reblooming for
me. It's put up two full-length stalks, multi-socketed and well-branched.
I'm proud to check its vital signs several times a day -- as you would be,
too, I feel sure.
Anyway, yesterday Mr. Storey (the same Mr. Storey who helpfully
photographed my flowering irises when I was out of state last spring but
failed to write any of the names down because, as he put it, "So what?")
this same Mr. Storey trailed after me, yesterday, into the iris patch.
"What are you coming out here all the time for?" he asked.
"See it?" I cried. "Isn't it too wonderful?"
"Oh that? That looks like all the other irises."
Egad.
Dear friends, I gripped the big man by his big elbow and slowly turned him
180 degrees, directing him to gaze upon "all the other irises."
"Notice anything different about those plants and this one?" I asked -- and
I was patient and compassionate and kind, dear friends, ever so kind.
"Uh," he said at last, obviously at a loss.
So I gave him the hint. "Notice how this is one is blooming and those
others aren't?"
The boy's hair actually lightened two tones when that lightbulb blinked on.
"How did you get it to do that?" he stammered.
"That's exactly the right question," I said, patting him. "Very good,
Michael. Very, very good."
Of course, now he wants to know why I've sunk so much energy into plants
that "only bloom once a year when you could plant the whole place in CITY
LIGHTS." But that is a gardening-type question. We're making progress,
actual progress.
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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