Re: Weeding somebody else's garden
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- Subject: Re: Weeding somebody else's garden
- From: G*
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:14:10 -0400
- References: <96.581a806.26668290@aol.com>
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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