Re: Yard Labels
My $.02
labeling and keeping records are the ideal thing to do, but I'm getting long
on years and short on memory. one day I won't be here, and then what
happens?
I have one son, while my daughter-in-law loves flowers, she will love them
in her garden. the plants that she will put in her garden will be plants of
her own choosing, and so it should be. the fun of a garden, to me, it the
choosing and planting and the caring, watching them grow, changing them
around, and all that goes with gardening.
Our property will sold. I wish I could stipulate that it can only be sold to
a flower lover, but even for me that's unreasonable.
my point is, I'm gonna spend my time in the garden, instead of record
keeping or labeling. I will probable forget what the name of some of them
are, but what the heck !! worse than that, would be if I got in a
position where I couldn't even walk out and look at them.
It's important for some folks to know what a plant is, and others, it's
just important to know that it "is" you could call me the
latter.........................
I just love gardening
Donna in NE Mississippi zone 7
Don Martinson wrote:
> >I find them to be distracting. You don't see things conveniently labeled
> >in the woods, do you?
>
> <snip>
>
> >And how could I forget what plants I have? That's like forgetting the
> >names of your children!
>
> Val, while I see your point, I know that the day is going to come
> that I will no longer be the owner of my house and Master of The
> Garden and I may not have the good fortune and luxury of passing "El
> Jardín del Exceso Desgraciado" on to someone who knows (or even
> cares, God Forbid!) about plants and horticulture. I hear horror
> stories about folks who had to leave a garden tended lovingly through
> the years, only to learn that the new owners had everything torn out
> and replaced with something more "maintenance free". I know I'll
> never label all of my plants, but some of the real odd-balls (the
> Dove Tree <Davidia involucrata>, or Chinese Spice bush
> <Sinocalycanthus chinensis>, might get lost in the shuffle, so to
> speak, if they had no identification or indication to show that they
> were "Special".
>
> Just my $.02
>
> --
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> l*@execpc.com
>
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