Re: Low Mainitenance
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Low Mainitenance
- From: C* D* <c*@fix.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:20:10 -0800
I'm not completely comfortable with the "low mainentance" ideas
I've been seeing.
It seems to me that if you want "no" work, why garden? Put it in
concrete and have someone embed some pretty tiles.
Further if you plant local plants with no mainentance, aren't you
just duplicating that natural patch across the fence in that farmer's
field. or a patch in that woods at the edge of town. Well, take a folding
chair and go out there and commune.
The city has a xeric demonstration garden. To me it doesn't look
very different from some vacant lots I've seen around town, posted for
abatement. I think I would just as soon have concrete as this!
As for me, I want to minimize the maintenance required for the
plant materials I want to live with. There will be some work, particularly
if I'm any good at garden design. I'm willing to pay for some water to
maintain it. I even have set up some automatic sprinklers so that the water
can come at the time when it will be most effective. Besides, I'm
enormously forgetful and don't want to be reminded that my plants need
water by their droop. That's too late!
Does one really have to be a purist to be virtuous? ---Chas---
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