Re: Re:leaving your garden behind
- Subject: Re: Re:leaving your garden behind
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:00:11 -0500
Cathy, that old saying is absolutely true...same thing happened to me
once and I swore I'd never go back to an old house again. You have
to take what you value with you because it's ten to one the new
owners won't care a fig for it and will just trash it for grass or
whatever they consider to be beautiful. People, it seems, feel the
need to place their mark on new property by wiping the slate clean.
This is not an age when people build on the old; it seems to be one
in which only the new has any value...pity.
Onward and Upward is the only direction:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Bernie & Cathy Higgins <cyberduo@txucom.net>
> To: perennials@hort.net
> Subject: Re:leaving your garden behind
> Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:44 AM
>
> This thread really hit home for me. We had to relocate and I
wanted to
> put in the contract on our house that the new owners dead head
every
> day. Hah! I had all of my perennials just how I want them and
there
> were 5 large areas full of beauty.
>
> We went by the old house a couple of weeks ago and we were shocked
that
> the new owners had dug up absolutely everything in the front yard.
I
> assume the back is the same but we couldn't see all of it. Looks
like
> new construction with tiny little boring plants around it. It had
> looked like a perfectly groomed botanical garden and they destroyed
it!
> They even got rid of a beautiful blue spruce. Enough to make me
cry.
> The only upside is that it has stopped me from missing my old
home.
> The old saying "you can never go back" must be true.
>
> The upside is that now I'm starting all over again. Even though
being
> older makes it all more difficult, we are in an entirely different
> climate zone and growning situation so though I will miss some of
my
> favorites there are many new things to try I couldn't even dream of
> before. Got to look forward.
>
> Gardening now in zone 8 had been in 6
>
> Cathy Higgins
> Montgomery TX
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