Re: Weeding somebody else's garden

Gene -- have you considered some kind of little barrier to create the 
impression that visitors are not supposed to walk off the path. 
There are lots of low types of visual barriers, everything from those 
wire hoop deals that you can buy at Home Depot and the like for a few 
bucks for several feet to the cast iron ones that are reminiscent of 
victorian era design.  They are only 6 to 12 inches tall so they 
don't really keep anyone or anything out and don't much interfere 
with the design, but I use the to remind the kids where the garden 
beds start and the walkways end.  Seems to work here.

Nan


>Whoops!
>     Now you have done it, Bill. I was OK and letting this thread go 
>by until you
>mentioned seeds and wandering off the paths in the garden. My two big ones.
>     I have seen with my own eyes (when they think I am not looking) 
>gardeners pick
>seed pods before they are ripe just to snitch a few. Since I collect 
>seeds from
>almost everything ... and would share if they asked... this one truly ticks me
>off. Then I do not have them and neither do they. Greed.
>     Placing ones foot up and into a bed to lean over and see better 
>happens more
>than I care to think about.... all from gardeners who should know better. Last
>time it happened the foot came down on a rare polygonatum that had 
>not emerged as
>yet.... Sigh....
>     Even I do not walk on my beds after they are prepared and planted. Had two
>ladies here this week to visit the garden. One kept walking off the 
>path into the
>edge of the beds. The other kept saying "don't do that... can't you 
>see the look
>on his face". Second replied that she wasn't hurting anything and 
>needed bifocals,
>so it was OK. She did this through the entire garden tour.
>     I remained cordial... but distant and polite. No outside noises.
>     Thank the gods most gardeners are considerate and thoughtful and 
>this does not
>happen but a few times each year.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Blee811@aol.com>
>Subject: Re: Weeding somebody else's garden
>
>
>>  Sometimes we gardeners can be a menace too.  I know a daffodil 
>>grower who had
>>  some gardeners tour his garden and they decided to "help" by deadheading on
>>  their own.  What they failed to realize was that he had already pollinated
>>  some of those blooms and wanted them to go to seed.  Also, deadheading is an
>>  excellent means of spreading plant diseases from one plant to another--They
>>  can be transmitted on tools AND fingers.
>>
>>  I've also been amazed to see gardeners, who ought to know better, step off
>>  the paths and into the flower beds to take a closer look at a plant.
>snip......
>>  Bill Lee
>
>
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Sunset zone 24, USDA hardiness zone 10b or 11

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