Re: "Magazine" flowerbed
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: "Magazine" flowerbed
- From: "* &* C* <t*@haywood.main.nc.us>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:27:39 -0400
Same here. My family doesn't get it either. They don't realize that it
would be very expensive to get your garden looking like a magazine the
first year! It is good to know that all of you on the net understand.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brenda Spaur <brenda@spaur.com>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: "Magazine" flowerbed
>Thanks goodness my husband is very supportive but friends and family
>look at the big perennial bed I just finished planting and don't get
>it :). The bed is 50'x7' or so and most of the plants I grew from
>seed this spring. Little did I know how long it would take me to get
>the thing planted. I admit it sure doesn't look like much now with my
>little 1-2 inch babies out there -- but just wait until next year!
>
>Brenda
>Denver, Zone 5
>
>At 09:46 PM 6/21/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>My wife is the same way. Every day she goes out and looks at our less
than a
>>year old flower gardens and asks when it is going to look like a flower
>>garden. I've stop telling her to be patient. She just does it to
aggravate
>>me anyway. I don't understand her attitude. I would bet that over 50%
of the
>>people on this list are female, but she is not only not interested, but
won't
>>even help me with them. I enjoy it, but would prefer to work on the
gardens
>>together
>
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