Re: Fw: "common gardeners" and thinking

Reid Family wrote:

At the risk of sounding harsh, I find that most of the common gardeners I run into simply DON'T think, at least not about climate or the appropriateness of what they plant. They just see something they think is pretty in a neighbor's yard or at the nursery and they buy it (usually twice as much as they need), stick it somewhere in their yard and hope for the best.
At least in some cases seeing what the neighbours are growing _successfully_ could be quite a good way of planning one's garden if one is not a plantsperson. In fact in general talks on gardening I have quite often recommended to people coming into an unfamilar climate that they do just that -before buying any plants walk round and see what is doing well in the gardens close at hand.

What is offered in local nurseries can however be a different matter and not necessarily related to reality!

Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm

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