Re: THE 13 DEADLY(?) SYNDROMES OF GARDENING
James & Donna Davis wrote:
> dean
> I didn't know what a egret looked like, so I looked it up on the
> internet. It's neat, and I'm not so sure that I wouldn't just as soon
> have them as the flamingo. What I would really love to have is a live
> Peacock, but my husband says no, for reasons I've never understood,
> unless it could be the cost.
Donna -- see all the previous postings about
peacocks. They're big, mean,
and really, REALLY loud. Neighbors will think
your husband is torturing
you in the middle of the night.
One (advantage?) to plastic "yahd aht" is that
it's usually inexpensive so
that, once installed, if you decide that a pair of
plastic birds stalking
through your perennials isn't exactly the look you
were going for you can
easily hide them in the back of the garage with
few regrets. A few blocks
away from me the people have recently installed a
pair of life-size
concrete lions to guard the entranceway of their
3-bedroom ranch house
(all I can say is that I'm glad they're a few
blocks away!*). Life-size
concrete lions are not as easy to hide in the back
of the garage as are a
$20 pair of plastic birds.
*Having nearby examples of more, um, (creative?)
"yahd aht" has encouraged me to better appreciate
natural garden accessories like fieldstones and
tree stumps.
That's the main reason that I like sale-table
perennials, especially plants
I've never grown before. If a plant I acquired
for $2 isn't happy -- or I
decide that I don't really like it -- then it's a
lot easier to give away
or toss onto the compost pile than, say, one of
those $80 peonies.
;-)
Dean Sliger
Warren, MI, USA
Zone 6B
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