Re: Why plants die
- Subject: Re: Why plants die
- From: "Becky Litterer" b*@netins.net
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:04:35 -0600
Please post sounds wonderful...Becky from Iowa
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From: "tangly cottage gardening" <tangly@pacifier.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: Why plants die
> That is one of my favourite pieces of garden humour....I have the whole
poem
> in email format and could post it if requested, or could send it privately
> to someone who might want to read it.
>
> Skyler
> tangly@pacifier.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sophie Rapaport" <sophieruth@charter.net>
> To: <perennials@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:27 PM
> Subject: Why plants die
>
>
> > 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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