Re: Shadegarden Question?
- Subject: Re: [SG] Shadegarden Question?
- From: Paul Henjum M*@AOL.COM
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:41:56 EST
In a message dated 2/14/2003 12:17:06 AM Central Standard Time,
mtalt@HORT.NET writes:
> I can't
> fault a plant who is that tough.
>
I agree, you are correct that they can take a lot of neglect and keep on
"living" But I will let you in on a deep, dark personal secret...one should
call it more properly a loathing.
My first "job" was in 8th grade as a corn detasseler, a most hideous job, to
make a teen have to get up in the morning during summer vacation to do.
One day it would 90 and the air would be sticky with humidity-the next day it
would rain and one would freeze (I can remember some of those cold
mornings-all wet shivering on the bus)...Have I said any thing about the bugs
yet? Or the cut up legs and arms because of the leaves?
But the worst thing of all was the smell of the corn plants- I shudder
thinking about now.
So when my brother move back to Minnesota from Detroit, he gave my parents
that corn plant and it looked like corn and reminded me of corn and I have
hated it since.
It lives to spite me, I tell yea - when I tall bad about it-it sends out new
leaves.
Paul
