Re: Moving to California
My husband and I are collectors: we have rocks, plants, genealogy
records, paintings, sculpture and such from vacations, almost anything
which has caught our fancy. We have more books than I can count,
purchased new, used, etc. While all of these things are inexpensive,
they are mportant to us, but our oldest daughter (executor of our will)
has a husband who gleefully says he "will throw everything in the
dump". I imagine he would feel that way about the plants also, though
my daughter would want many of them, if he would let her find places for
them. Some people just seem to like blankness, which is something I
personally can't understand. Needless to say, we dont like the idea of
our things being summarily disposed of. I have lately been listing all
the things that are important to us, including plants. I am trying to
devise ways to give them to family members who actually want them, and
if they do not, I want to give them away to people who might actually
appreciate them. I have collected these things because they are
important to us in various ways, and I know that there are others who
would treasure most of them also.
I do not believe that one always "gets what one pays for". But I do
think that giving plants away to friends might not place them with the
persons who would most like to have them. How about putting an ad in
the paper, offering unusual plants, for collectors who like particular
ones? They could be sold at a nominal fee, so that they would more
likely be preserved. A "yard" plant sale.
Maybe we could start a National Plant Rescue Society? I had been
thinking that if we ever sold our house, it should be advertised as "a
garden with house". Now, I am starting to think more creatively. I
love my garden, but it I know it would not be to everyone's taste.
Anelle
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