Well, I'd been coming to think that bb was a very novice gardener with the usual
initial impulse to control or kill anything that he hadn't intentionally planted.
But if this was virtual art gardening rather than actual--then it makes me wonder
why bb doesn't want to get his hands dirty. Hm. Most everyone I know around here
does actual gardening of some kind or another, sometimes rather major (greenhouse
that's heated in the winter by the biomass of a wormcomposting operation, raising
most of what the family eats, totally organic; or the collectively financed farm
that we all pay shares on) or minor (flower gardens, a city-provided vegetable
plot, my bulbs and perennials and welcomed wildflowers, a friend who encourages
the forget-me-nots that grow in his lawn, and the hawkweed that follows them, by
only mowing paths, not the whole thing. It's gorgeous.) So gardening and comments
seem utterly normal to me, everyone makes them here. The weirdly out-of-touch tone
of these, though, is becoming apparent.
So the question becomes: Why _not_ a real garden?
AK
Terrence Kosick wrote:
> I was just wondering today if this list had a sub list of horticulture chat. I
> confess I have been looking at plants differently since brad started posting
> these. Indeed something subliminal has been happening.
>
> Is 'the jig ' up?
>
> T.
>
> allen bukoff wrote:
>
> > Brad,
> >
> > I am slowly coming to think that these seed & plant requests are not really
> > yours...that you are copying them from somewhere else. That this is really
> > some sort of project of yours. That I am retarded.
> >
> > Allen
> >
> > >I have some lobelia growing in a hanging basket. When should I hang it
> > >outside? I live in PA. Thank you
