Re: two countries

In a message dated 8/27/00 12:49:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
valerie-anne@lineone.net writes:

<< gardens.  Being a plant lover I find it difficult to understand why people
 prefer lawn/hard surface to plants.   Do you think that the concept of
 gardening is changing in the States? >>

Valerie,

Other priorities are swimming pools,  multi-car garages,  parking areas,  
basketball courts, swing sets, great big motor homes.  I don't think the 
concept is changing but I do think there is more interest in recent years.  
Certainly the much expanded diversity of plants available is wonderful for 
gardeners.  Having a young family at home limits garden space for a few 
years.  When I was young, there were many immigrant families still practicing 
DIY gardening.  Gradually their children moved away from this "manual labor" 
concept.  The idea of horticulture as avocation is not typically American.

<<<>>>

Thank you, Valerie.  I knew that was wrong and I could not find the right 
spelling in my tired head.

<<<< The idea of planting in
containers has exploded over here in the past few years; perhaps because of
lack of land?   My deck is littered with pots (which have to be moved so
that we can sit on it) and there are containers on the drive: annuals in the
summer and evergreens in the winter.>>>>

My container collection has also become quite large.  I found I could grow 
plants in pots that need warmer soil sooner than it appears here.  Dwarf 
dahlias, cannas, other bulbs and roots from the tropics.  I like oxalis 
triangularis which will grow into a huge plant in a container.  Also fuchsias 
need transporting back and forth, there is variegated solanum and rosemary.  
Quite a lot more! Take heart Valerie, I am under constant threat to remove 
the containers from the back decking before someone else does it for me.  I 
have hardly ever seen a big clay pot that I did not like.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY z4

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