gardening's implications
- To: perennials
- Subject: gardening's implications
- From: I* H*
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:24:20 -0400
Greetings: I would just like to acknowledge a further benefit of being
a gardener, and that is that one must develop a philosophic point of
view after a while;
this is the time of year when we must be deadheading, for example; now
we are seeing flowers, that have been gorgeous and given us much
pleasure to look at, drying up, losing their color, some even looking
frowsy and unkempt, dying in other words, and we have to pluck them from
their stems and eventually sweep them into a common pile for the
compost;
we must deadhead for the sake of the plant itself, even if we wouldn't
have the heart to do it otherwise;
it's gotten so that I won't deadhead as long as there is one shred of
color left on the blossom, since it seems I identify: where would I have
been when my hair started turning from brown to gray if I were a flower?
Then, of course, there are other causes for us to become philosophic:
when one summer it doesn't hardly rain, or it rains too much; when all
the blooms are being eaten by slugs, or japanese beetles; when mold or
rust strikes, and on and on.
When the package of cosmos said they would be in all shades of yellow,
cream, and orange, and all that grew was orange, contrasting very
strangely with the rest of the garden...
I won't go on, but I could...
Isabelle Hayes
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