Re: [SG] Something Odd
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] Something Odd
- From: C* C* <C*@AOL.COM>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:25:09 EDT
In a message dated 5/11/1999 10:47:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
shsande@IONET.NET writes:
<< I guess there will always be gardeners who garden for the love of the
plants and others who make the "rules." <G> >>
He/she who lives by the sword, dies by the sword---to coin a phrase.
We as gardeners MUST set examples. We must stop the proliferation of awful
bedding plants.
Everyone seems to worship that fellow who has made tons of money on his two
editions of Gardening in the Shade. I find each of the editions worthless but
for one comment he makes: "the busyness of hostas." People just plant them
wherever there is a space for the next one, without giving any thought to the
rules.
If we do not have rules, we have chaos. Did you go to the Hosta Convention
last year? The gardens except for one were chaotic. With that one exception,
I had rather hear a choir singing something in G-flat Major in E-Flat Minor.
I think it charming what you told the rose lady---but what do they look like
when the roses are not in bloom? Roses belong in the back garden. Indeed,
roses belong on the compost heap.
I am sure you all have either tried to grow Delphinium hybrids or have seen
them in someone else's garden. Are they not terrible?
We must resist those beautiful pix in those awful catalogs, such as Wayside
and White Flower Farm.
Buy trees. <G>
How can any sane person like a huge amount of daylilies? <BG>
Clyde Crockett z5 Indianapolis IN <ccredux@aol.com>
