Re: Why plants die
- Subject: Re: Why plants die
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 01:31:55 -0500
That's about my favorite gardening poem, Sophie...and true as true
can be! Plant Delights published it on the back of one of their
catalogs a few years ago, too. And, you're also right about
Charlesworth's books - some of my favorite 'reads'.
I always figure that if I obtain a plant that appears to be healthy
and growing strongly, and it dies, it's my fault and certainly not
the nursery's. Now, if it arrives DOA or is some weezly, mingy
little thing, that's a whole 'nother issue. But, what some people
expect to get refunds for just passeth all understanding; people do
the strangest things...with some of them ya' gotta wonder how they
manage to get out of bed by themselves in the morning and make it
safely back at night, their loads are shy so many bricks..
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Sophie Rapaport <sophieruth@charter.net>
>
> Recent post about the request for the refund for the shrubs that
died after
> being put in the ground in their pots reminded me of the poem in
> Charlesworth's "A gardener obsessed". It lists a zillion reasons
why the
> plant died, starting with:
>
> "You walked too close. You trod on it.
>
> You dropped a piece of sod on it.
>
> You hoed it down. You weeded it.
>
> You planted it the wrong way up.
>
> You grew it in a yogurt cup.."
>
> This book and his earlier "The opinionated gardener" are among my
favorite
> gardening books - right there with Henry Mitchell, Allen Lacy and
others
> mentioned in the recent thread. Sophie Rapaport, Zone 5b Central MA
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