Carolyn,
Your new book sounds cool! Native plants are always better except in the
city where some non-native (and non-invasive) trees may be an option.
On July 4 my wife Sun and I pedaled the Emerald Necklace in Boston and
checked out the fabulous perennial gardens at the Fens and then it was
on to the famous Arnold's Arboretum. On the way back we took a long bike
trail (the Southwest Corridor) where we saw some cool gardens but the
new Rose Kennedy Greenway is a huge disappointment. This greenway was
created after the Big Dig was completed but there's too much granite and
it's chopped up into too many pieces while it's rather unfriendly to
bikers and doesn't connect to the SW corridor. Although I will say
Boston looks like a new city with the hideous old overpass gone - yeah
the Big Dig was nothing more than a $20 billion beautification project!
As a matter of fact, aside from the Charles River bike paths, Boston is
very unfriendly to bikers. Cambridge, on the other hand, is probably the
best city in MA for bikers.
If you can convince more people to plant gardens to replace more lawns,
that's better for the environment too!
Let us know when your book comes out so I can order a few copies for my
sister in law who has a business installing gardens.
Mike
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Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:14 AM
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Subject: [ENTS] Re: Off topic, Movie Deal
That's great! What's the name of your novel? Does it
have anything to do with giant trees?
Ed, this news raises a question I've been meaning to
ask. Is this forum a "listserve"? If so, would it be ok for Rutgers U.
Press to post info about my book coming out next spring? I think it
would be of interest to many members. The working title is "Designing
Gardens with Northeastern Flora." I'm filling out a marketing
questionaire for Rutgers (which is in some ways a harder task than
writing the book) and the form asks for listserves that I belong to and
this is the only one (if it is a listserve). Sorry to be so clueless
about such details.
Thanks,
Carolyn
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