[Mpls] Boulevards;RT Replacements

[Jim Mork]

My wife is doing the same thing this year. She left the pseudo-lawn around 
the fire hydrant, I suspect so firemen wouldn't have to  try to avoid 
growing plants. The rest of the weedpatch was dug up.  She's doing it the 
hard way, picking different flowers to go in there.  But flowering 
groundcover seems a better choice to me.  I watched a video on gardening 
from the library today.  It was called "Midwest Gardening: Spring".  I'm 
returning it so you could get it. The gardener named a lot of good 
groundcover plants.  The only one I remember is Ajuga.  But I know from my 
wife's experience that lilies of the valley will take over any space you 
give them.  And her violets are the same, they start from one space and 
spread everywhere. I'll know better after we do this a couple of years.  I 
seem some really good boulevard plantings in Cooper.  I feel like taking 
some digital photos and putting them  in a public folder online.  Plus, 
there's a new house up at 31st Street and 44th Ave that has my admiration. 
It has NO front lawn. They aren't even trying to establish one. Instead, 
they have nothing but a front flower garden. And it's a corner lot.  So 
that'll be fun to watch.

Some reservations about the suggestion from Corrie Zoll: Sounds like an 
invitation for standing water where mosquitoes can hatch.  It seems to me 
that any deliberate move to create standing water is a bad move.  The storm 
drains have one effect of allowing such water to run off.  And since a LOT 
of tax dollars went into building them, we need to allow them to do our job. 
 Yeh, mosquitoes are "natural", but they are one of those things in nature 
that make one question why God put them here.  I won't be one who'll 
encourage their prospering any more than they already do.  What do I need 
mosquitoes for when I have health insurance companies. They leave little 
ENOUGH for the bugs to feast on!

When you are complaining about thick forests of daylilies on corners, don't 
forget about five windowless vans PARKED on corners. Talk about your TRAFFIC 
hazards.

I think the best boulevard garden is a cover of low plants that flower all 
summer.

And, yes, it "theoretically" belongs to the Park Board. But they don't water 
the trees. They don't mow the grass.  They hardly do anything but cut down 
trees and then plant new ones without asking anybody what would look nice 
there.  I'd say plant away.  I doubt they have the money to help or hinder 
you.

RT Replacements
That does it. No LONGER will I refer to "Jim Graham".  From here on its 
"Colonel Beauregard Graham".  He has camouflaged his true identity for TOO 
long!
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Jim Mork
Cooper Neighborhood
Longfellow Community
Minneapolis, MN
More fun than a barrel of Norwegians!

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