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LONG Earth Day

Working in the town garden and listening on my sun powered transister to
the squabbling politicians in the Federal Parliament, my meandering
thoughts turned to politicaly correct things.  I looked around.  How
many things have crept into my gardens?

Town Garden:  Well, I should scrap all the lawns for one, too water
hungry. But the house is 160 years old and the gardens have always been
set off with lush green swards.  So there is the first dilemma - the
garden historians tell me that I must return to the historically correct
garden.  I am never sure what date or what garden is the most
historically correct.
As they never answer that question, I suppose I  should take notice of
the scientists and do my bit.  But Tasmania is full of water, there are
lakes everywhere.

Country Garden:   My rebelling thoughts turned to the country garden. Do
I have to pull out all the granny-night-caps and forget-me-nots?  After
all, if the birds bring opium Poppies into the garden, surely they
are taking some of my beautiful thugs back to the bush?  The
Greenies tell us that the natural bush is getting clogged up with
garden ornamentals and I agree that is an awful thing.  Now, we have
many hectares of semi-rain forest which is chock-a-block full of
blackberries.   It would be impossible for Kees and I to get rid of it
on our own.  So, I will pull out the ornamental seeders, if they [the
Greenies] will come down and help us get rid of hundreds of blackberry
bushes.  I must confess that the reason the blackberries are covering
all of Eastern Australia is because an early English settler decided he
would like to have a blackberry pie with his Sunday dinner and imported
one bush!

Both gardens:  We must not kill the fauna.  In Tasmania, the possums
have increased to mammoth proportions.   Most New Zealand gardeners hold
a very big grudge against Australians because someone decided to import
the cuddly possum into those beautiful islands.   There are many jokes
about there being more sheep in New Zealand than humans, but now the
possums have out numbered the sheep and all the politically incorrect
jokes have to be changed.   Possums eat EVERYTHING in the gardens with
roses being their ice cream.   We relocate the few we catch in the
benign trap but, unless we go to the other end of the Island, being
terratorial they are back in one or two days.

All gardens:  What do we do with the garden gnome that well meaning
Auntie Sue gives us for Christmas?   Tell her we can stand the things
no matter how cute, or be more politically correct and never hurt the
dear lady feelings and place it in the middle of the croquet lawn?

As I couldnt solve these very difficult conundrums, I returned to my
weeding and listening to Parliament.  Unfortunately, the sun was going
down and the voices very fading away into the wilderness.

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We are well into our Autumn season.  This year the trees are very slow
to turn.  The Japanese Acers, always the first to greet the new season,
are just beginning to go pink and yellow.   Autumn, in Australia is a
very busy time.   The weeds are laughing in our faces,  for, it is the
past weeks that are always very busy ones for our family.  But now is
the time for visiting the Nurseries and planting, shifting and
seperating the perrenials.  It is my favourite time for these jobs, the
soil will remain warm for quite a while, so if you plant now, the plant
will be well established in its new home by the time the cooler Winter
weather comes.

There are still plenty of flowers in the garden.  The roses are in 
their full flush of Autumnal blooming.  The Naked Ladies[is is
politically correct to have them in your garden?] look quite
marvellous, as are the Crinum lilies, the Autumn crocus, the hydrangeas
and the Dahlias
-- 
Gay Klok Tasmania
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