Re: Low maintenance gardening

Paul,
If we take your suggestions to the limit, then the Eucalyptus trees would
have us burnt out in no time.  I have 40 acres of semi rainforest bush
surrounding the 8-10 acres of ornamental garden and I can sleep quite well
during our summer months, having in my memory the experience of many
horrific bush fires, I know that the house and my life will be spared
because of the cultivated surroundings. Surprisingly, the "thugs" from the
ornamental gardens, have not encroached into the bush, indeed, just the
opposite, I get more wattle and gum seedlings growing up in the ornamental
gardens than the other way around.

When you reach my age and my husbands age [64 and 74] and have had an
enormous driving urge to grow and love plants, all your adult life, to sit
and just contemplate the "wilderness" would certainly be stimulating and
encouraging to the advancement of senility and rheumatics.  I suppose I
could take my tatting outside as I sit and contemplate or, more likely,
devour gardening books and read of other gardeners' labor, but I prefer to
creak my way around the garden for a few hours of relaxation every day,
loving and tending to and admiring and wondering and talking to and enjoying
the exotic children of my elderly years
Gay :-]

Paul Harrar wrote:

> Well said, Erik! (and Tim Dutton, and others)
>
> There are a lot of contradictions in gardening that exemplify the human
> propensity
> to control our environment, rather than live in synch with it.
>
> Paul Harrar
> Nevada City, CA, USA
> Sunset Zone 7
> 2,700 ft.

--
Gay Klok Tasmania

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