>So if you must feel inferior about your lack of "bourgeois elitist stone" in >your fine garden, by all means go off to the local boulder store with an ounce >of gold or two in hand and purchase your dream rock (s). I will say that >stone gives lasting value, anyway- nobody will steal it and it will be there >quite a long time. Just plunk the newly obtained rock on top of one of your >local bunnies (I am sorry to hear about the bunnies), and even if it isn't >artfully arranged, you will have a slight smile on your face when you walk by.
The last purchase of stone here cost about $1500. I forget why we even had the money to spend on stone. Maybe it was a grant or something. The backyard bunny is no more. He slipped through the chain link fence right into the jaws of the retriever next door. >My eye was caught, by the way, by a quotation at the bottom of your page. It >goes like this- "For every minion of the peaks there are a dozen steppe >children growing in the dry Continental heart of all hemispheres still unknown >to horticulture". I like that quotation, and Thank Heavens it is in English! >Is it from you, or did you borrow it? That's PK's quote. Bob
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