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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] intro

Hi, Tony.
  You'll probably get lots of posts about deer:  a modern Norway rat in
most of our perceptions!! It is protected except for a limited hunting
season in the autumn of each year.  Only 6 deer allowed per hunter, and
only a few days for does...The damned things multiply religiously, and find
that cars, people, noises, houses, some dogs, most people and the suburbs
agree with them very well!!  Most backyards (and some front yards too)
offer more and better forage material than the "wild" - and they're not
dumb, so they come and "expensively" help themselves.  Most are whitetails,
reintroduced into most of the U.S. by the U.S. game and fish dept.  I have
an 8' electric fence around 1 acre of my most prized plants, and let them
eat to their heart's content on the other 4.5 acres.  Joann Stewart Zone 7
Watkinsville, Georgia  (edge of the piedmont region, leading up to the
Appalachian Mountains)  where it is cold enough tonight to make you VERY
glad not to be a brass monkey!! <BG>
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> From: flynnt <flynnt@ELLCONWEB.NET.NZ>
> To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: [SHADEGARDENS] intro
> Date: Monday, January 19, 1998 3:26 PM
>
> Hi all
>
> This was a surprise!  I subscribed to a list and got a welcome inviting
> me to introduce myself plus a box full of mail.
> Intro: Tony Flynn retired mechanical fitter living by the beach in the
> Bay of Plenty. New Zealand.
> I do not have the large garden some of you seem to have. One in England
> and one in Normandy. Phew!!
> 1/4 acre of the usual Kiwi garden. My interest in shade is an area
> approx 8 x 4 metres at the back (south) side of the house. That's the
> shady side for those in the Northern hemisphere. It get the afternoon
> sun. It was very uninteresting , so I built a framework over it and
> covered it with shade cloth. 50% I think.
> The idea was to have a place to grow something different.  We have a few
> ferns which are ok 2 Hostas  very slow. Impatiens which runs rampant.
> Herbs parsley and mint which are flourishing. Polyanthus coming on
> slowly. A Nikau palm that will probably grow through the roof in a few
> years.
> Any suggestion welcome. The El Nino has given us the longest, hottest,
> driest
> and windiest  summer for years. Scarcely any rain since November and
> none in sight.
> One last thing. Why do you people have so much trouble with deer? Here
> the wild deer keep well back in the bush as every Kiwi bloke has an old
> 303 rifle.
> They would be in the pot almost as soon as they pocked their nose out.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony Flynn Grandad. Retired at the beach. Bay of Plenty New Zealand.
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