RE: Damaging somebody else's garden
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- Subject: RE: Damaging somebody else's garden
- From: M* D*
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 08:58:06 -0700
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Hi Bill,
You make some excellent points. I must say that visitors to my garden have
been delightful and always had proper etiquette ("ask permission to take
photos, leave everything as you find it, take only your memories, thank your
host"). But I was part of a large tour a few years back where there were 2
women rudely taking cuttings & seeds from the host's plants without
permission - and worse - without using tools, just breaking off branch tips,
seed pods and shoots leaving the plants looking damaged. I asked them twice
to stop and they just laughed saying the host would never miss the little
bit they were taking. People like that shouldn't be let out of their cage!
My mother used to consider it her "duty" to deadhead my roses when she
visited and Dad would pick all the seed pods off the hanging Fuchsias as he
walked around the deck. Sigh...... I wish they were still here to do it.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon
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From: owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Blee811@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:58 AM
To: perennials@mallorn.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.
And I've heard arboretum, botanical garden, and conservatory managers
complain of gardeners who take cuttings, seeds, and sometimes entire plants.
Mom and dad aren't the only bad guys in the garden.
Bill Lee
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