Re: [SG] Something Odd
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Something Odd
- From: C* C* <C*@AOL.COM>
- Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:42:43 EDT
In a message dated 5/11/1999 12:31:26 AM Central Daylight Time,
mtalt@CLARK.NET writes:
<< I've never heard such a load of hooey in my
entire life:-) Never have read even a breath of rumor to this effect.
>>
Hi Marge,
I know that Page designed the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's country garden in
France to look like an English garden, but he deplored the use of flowers.
Trees, water, and grass., period. I think we inherited our "love" for flowers
from the English, but they know how to use them. Most Americans do not know
how to plant a proper perennial border, nor would most ever consider the
wonderful practice of bedding out.
Now Vita Sackville-West did use flowers but did not mix them horribly as most
American gardeners would do. If she were alive today and saw the use
Americans make of flowers I think she would turn over in her grave.
I do not object to the use of flowers, but rather to the WAY they are used.
They should be planted in MASSES--one and only one variety and color.Not that
awful practice of planting red salvias with ageratums and allysums.OR the
HORRIBLE use of pellies and window boxes with all those things mixed
together. AND petunias! Come August, most are nothing but scraggly stems.
Isn't Longwood considered a great garden? VERY VERY few flowers and certainly
NO annuals.
Aff.,
Clyde Crockett z5 Indy IN
