RE: Garden sizes, was "Cut back artichokes?"
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu" <m*@ucdavis.edu>
- Subject: RE: Garden sizes, was "Cut back artichokes?"
- From: T* D* <t*@xtra.co.nz>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:19:26 +1200
My first garden was undoubtedly a lot smaller than 400 square metres, and I
lusted after a larger garden. Then I bought a house with over 1000 square
metres (quarter acre) and thought I was in heaven for ten years, until it
got to the stage where it only took 15 minutes per week to mow the lawns
and an hour or so to remove all the weeds. I got bored, and again lusted
after a bigger garden. Silly me. Now I have developed over 2 acres of
garden (8000 square metres) from a wilderness, with a further 1 acre that
probably will be garden one day, if only I can find the time. I never have
enough time to do a tenth of the things that need doing and am a long way
from being bored. I guess I've become a slave to the garden, but I don't
mind. I would love to have a small garden again so I could keep it neat and
tidy, yet at the same time I love the space that I have and the ability to
do things on a much larger scale than before. I reckon the world needs all
sizes of garden, big or small, and all types of gardeners, young and old,
organic or not, collectors of rare and exotic plants or growers of
vegetables for the table. Long live the garden and long live the gardener!
(And long live the Medit-Plants list).
Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)
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From: georges-kiki [SMTP:condor-kiki@village.uunet.be]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 11:32 AM
To: nsterman@mindsovermatter.com; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Cut back artichokes?
My garden here in Belgium is also in its high season, full flowering. I am
trying my best to grow as many mediterranean plants as the climat will
afford me to. Which is problematic. I grow two three meter high fig trees,
Eucalyptus pauciflora, lots of thymes, santolina neapolitana en
chamaecyparis,lots and lots of lavender hidcote blue, lavender latifolia,
and lavendula stoechas, rows of rosmarinus Jessicas Upright,nigella,rhus
typhina,walnut,robinia pseudacacia tortuosa,buddleia .I let los of annuals
seed themself,and pull them out where I don t want them. 45 rose bushes etc
etc.. Iam afraid to tell on how little space I do all this...About 400
square metres !
I read all your letters every day,but am afraid to converse with such
highly informated people. I wondered many times how big all your gardens
are, compared with my poor 400 metres? But me and my husband enjoy it ever
so much.Last year we brought an olive tree from Iannina Greece,suppose to
be
the hardiest kind?
Lykissas G>
