Re: Covenants (was bottle trees) (warning--gets ranty by the end)
- Subject: Re: Covenants (was bottle trees) (warning--gets ranty by the end)
- From: D*
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 21:23:26 +1300
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I'm interested in your comments about
our New Zealand gardens Karen.
Perhaps one of the reasons we are a nation of gardeners is that we can
grow plants year round here. We are living in Wanganui and I can't say
that i have even seen a house without a reasonable garden here. The city
itself in kept in great order and the main street is lined with plane trees as
well as sporting about 800 hanging baskets. I'm not aware of any
covenants forbidding the use of gnomes, butterflies, flags or any other
thing. Folk do as they please and the result generally does.
Terry Dowdeswell
692 Brunswick Road
RD1
Wanganui
New Zealand
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terry@delphinium.co.nz
http://www.delphinium.co.nz
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> I visited
New Zealand two years ago and was astounded at the
> overwhelming
presence of real "gardens," everywhere. I had been in
> Auckland for
more than 24 hours before I saw a house that had made
NO
> effort, and
that was in a neighborhood that was decidedly "lower
> income." But even there, that was one isolated house, surrounded by
> gardening
neighbors. In one bookstore, I saw more shelf-space devoted
> to gardening
books than I had ever seen in my home town, at least 4X
> bigger in
population. Admittedly, I can't expect much out of the
> people on
my street; three churches, 3 residents are over 70; 3 are
> renters, and
one family's pregnant and remodeling as well. But still,
> I can drive
for blocks before I find people who are really GARDENING!
> Take back
your front yard! And don't support those nasty covenants by
> buying houses
in those subdivisions!
>
> It's Sunday. There's my sermon. But y'all are the choir...
>
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