Re: Ready for drugs
- Subject: Re: Ready for drugs
- From: M* F*
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:56:19 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Nan Sterman wrote:
> Mark, I am blushing... thank you for that. And since you've blown
> my cover, so to speak, I will reward you with the option of
> selecting a plant of the month or recommending a wonderful garden for
> me to write about ; }
--
Being a certified cactus nut, my vote for April is anything drastically
spiney with honking-huge flowers. They just fit so well in the
medit-scape. Offering a stark contrast to anything proteaceaus or
eucalyptid, or bonus shagginess to a rockery already abounding with
junipery-pininess, flowering hedgehogs and savage prickly pears seem to
really shine in April. For me at least, I find myself nearly weepy
everytime I see a new lawn irrigation installation going in with our 30
year drought yet to be fully realized. Just such a new install has been
going on right down the street from me, right across the street from
irrigated lawn acreage in Balboa park. What a waste. It's enough to make
me contemplate guerilla gardening- planting out Opuntias in the middle of
the night as a statement against the status quo.
Just my $.02 worth,
Mark
