Re: MG Day

In a message dated 1/30/03 1:02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
VBouffard@aol.com writes:


> Claire, I hope Sally Cunningham sticks to topic a bit better for you than 
> she did for us at Mass. Hort.  We too were expecting the companion planting 
> thing and the talk ended up being about beneficial insects.  All very well, 
> I guess, but nothing we didn't know already.  They invited us MG's for half 
> price and I remember thinking that I'd have been really irritated if I had 
> paid full price.
> 

I will pass this along to the friend who invited me.  She is on some 
committee that selected Ms. Cunningham.  If it happens it won't be the first 
time.  Ruth Clausen left the lectern last year because she said she was 
allergic to something in the auditorium.  Her topic was integrating tropical 
into a northern summer garden.  An author who did a book cottage gardening 
ended her talk in the middle of a sentence when a stop watch went off.  Paid 
time was up.  Then there was a central Mass. author, a very likable lady, who 
invited the whole room up to her garden last summer.  The day came, it was in 
the ninety degree range and there was no garden. 

Ms. Hobhouse did the circuit last year also and she arrived with a huge truck 
full of books. Millions of books, lined the high school halls for miles.  She 
was very polite, she apologized over and over for not being familiar with our 
zone and plants and was very difficult to understand.   When the thank yous 
and handshaking was to take place she was at the end of an enormous line of 
purchasers wanting a signature.

I think these things are attended because of cabin fever in our area.  Ken 
Druse is in Berkshire Botanic this Saturday coming.  They will not allow 
pickup at the door for tickets and people do not want to pay up front as here 
all fear snow covered roads making travel in the hills impossible.  If these 
gatherings are held on a balmy day in May, nobody would turn up.  We get to 
have a friendly lunch out though.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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