>Perhaps they thought your efforts at growing rocks would eventually be
>successful and they didn't want to embarrass you in your lack of visible
>rocks. It isn't nice to point out people's difficulties. Maybe you had
>merely sown pebbles, or grains of sand and they expected, in time, for those
>to grow to rock size.
I never thought of that. Another excuse to add to the list.
It was an enormous pile of pea gravel. There are several raised beds here with
purchased rocks (sorry, I mean stone, of course), and one with "indigenous"
rocks. I wanted another rock garden, but didn't want any more indigenous rocks,
and didn't want to buy any more. My motto being "aut Caesar aut nihil", I
decided on no rocks and to start a movement favoring proletarian rock gardens
rather than the elitist ones hat use imported stone and fancy designs.
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=312.0 That's what it looked like. I then
ordered some sandy loam topsoil and piled that on top. I mixed the topsoil
(devoid of earthworms) with the pea gravel, sort of, and then tried to conceal
the overall ugliness with plants, and mulched with gravel the next size up from
pea gravel.
In order to stave off the sort of spontaneous criticism that seems to erupt in
certain people, I simply asked them, "Isn't that the ugliest piece of crap
you've ever seen?", whereupon they would say things like, "Well, uh, not
really, though ....I don't know.......it does need a certain something...."
"Like what? Bourgeois elitist stone?"
"Yes. Perhaps one or two pieces artfully laid here and there..."
Artfully, well, that's the problem, but I guess they're right.
Bob Nold
Denver, Colorado, USA
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