tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84329712952309542782024-03-13T09:11:21.945-04:00The Garden's EdgeOccasional Garden posts, edgier than most. Updated near the end of each month.Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-53101882282977596042020-04-20T09:54:00.003-04:002020-04-20T09:54:55.348-04:00The Search for Sense<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span>The Search for Sense</span></i></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It's
easy to keep talking when you have nothing to say. I've done it often. After
all, if I shut up people might forget about me.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
49<sup>th</sup> essay is the last planned in the series. The others, ostensibly,
have been about gardening, though actually about my view of things. More
traditionally, there would be one more, making 50. People like things that end
in zeros. But, I'm finished here, resting comfortably at 49. If you enjoy my
strange humor, go back and read earlier essays. This one doesn't continue that
thread.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Instead,
I'll answer the question: why do I pursue the subjects I do? I know you never
asked that, but memoirs are more for the memoirist than their readers. More
encompassing than thoughts on my favorite color, or why photography is best
appreciated in January, the road traveled here spreads behind me, waiting to be
misunderstood and selectively remembered, as we all view our pasts.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My
father was a biologist, well versed in nature. He encouraged me to think about
and experience the life around us. I well remember collecting insects,
especially butterflies and moths, killing them in a jar with some gas (ether?),
and pinning them in a box. I learned their species names, when they appeared
during the year, what they ate and their life cycles.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Soon
after, astronomy beckoned and, delighting in a $30 reflecting telescope, I saw
the craters on the moon, the bands and moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn,
the crescent of Venus, sunspots, the double cluster in Perseus and the
Andromeda nebula.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
state of weather forecasting in the 1950s made it difficult to know when I
could get out with my scope. This resulted in my studying the weather to be my
own forecaster, and it became a greater focus than astronomy.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
above hobbies seem unrelated, but on a deeper level they fit a narrative: why
things are.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Given
our planet, the composition of its atmosphere and a temperature that allows a
common fluid (water, in our case), life is possible.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Given plant life, animal life
becomes possible. Why are plants where they are? Temperature, humidity and soil
type. Why do we have those? Geology answers: topography, water sources and
soils. I read some works on geology. Amazingly, the size and placement of the
Gulf of Mexico determines the economy of the US, the soil type and therefore,
plant life. If you need to understand this intuitively, glance at a NASA photograph
of the US at night, from space, and note the position of the lights. You'll see
wealth and agriculture to the right of the 100<sup>th</sup> meridian, which
rises north from the west end of the Gulf, desert and much poverty to the left.
Neutral and acidic soils are to the right, basic soils to the left. Many animal
and plant species act as if that meridian is a wall. The desolation continues
west until meeting the Pacific, where wealth and agriculture hug the watery
coast.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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Water (rain)
flows north and east from the warm Gulf. Elsewhere, you'd better have an oil
patch or a ski resort if you want to build a community.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
insects are where they are because they eat the plants that feed and nurture
them. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Animals, especially birds, eat
those insects. There are many more birds in the east than the west. Most plant
and animal species treat the 100<sup>th</sup> meridian as an electric fence.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ah,
birds! I became interested in birding about 1971 when this poor grad student
needed a place to go on a super-cheap date with a new girlfriend (and wife-to-be,
but who knew then?) A friend recommended going to Plum Island, a bird sanctuary
near our Boston homes. Seeing a Red-winged Blackbird show off hooked me, and
I've been a birder ever since.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Birds
are largely where they are because they eat the insects which eat the plants
which grow in the soils under the weather on a planet with the “right stuff.”
Yes, some birds are vegans, but they've just moved slightly down the chain.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Do
you see how things fit? Answering that is the thread of my interests. Before
the word “ecology” made it onto posters, I was thinking along those lines. Of
course, scientists making real contributions were working in that direction,
but I was drifting along, too, metaphorically picking up bright pebbles along
the way.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
still follow the thread, trying to take photos of clouds, flowers, birds,
butterflies, dragonflies and lunar craters.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
garden a lot, now.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
curse the insects, birds, rabbits and deer that devour the plants raised from
seedlings.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
try to create a soil mixture that will make the plants happy.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
move the plants around the yard, finding places with the right amount of sun or
shade for each.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
kill a lot of plants unlucky enough to be stuck in the “wrong stuff” in the
wrong lighting.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
try to see it all as a whole.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
can be seriously boring to talk to. Just excuse yourself and go back to the bar
for a refill.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thanks
for reading my essays. Perhaps we'll meet when the yellow sun is warm, the
skies are blue and white, and the multi-colors stretch to the horizon!</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><i>The Five Seasons</i></b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Dark</i></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Never-ending
cold. The sidewalks are slippery. I hate having to be careful!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Snow is
forecast ten days from now. They've been right sometimes. I'll scatter some
soil amendments on the beds before then, so they'll soak in slowly as the snow
melts.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Plenty of
time to update garden maps using last year's changes. Drawn with Microsoft
Paint, then printed for reference.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Arranging
photos of flowers, herbaceous beds, and fall colors can take days. Some even
make the cut and wind up on the web. The garden didn't really look <i>that</i>
good? It must have been a Photoshop trick.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Deer eating
the azaleas? NO! Bambi must die!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The dark
months, after the leaves have been picked up, are the time to get acquainted
with your house's interior. The living room, kitchen, bedroom, bath. Got it.
Stuck inside.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Another two
months of this? Get me out of here!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Bright</i></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The point.
The full year of work comes to this: great looking flowers.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Standing
among them in the early morning, steam slowly spinning skyward from my personal
coffee cup, shoes shiny with dew, nowhere else in the world matches this. Later
in the day, visitors will enjoy the scene. Did I pick up all the dead leaves? I
wish they were here Tuesday when that 'Amoenum' looked great!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Kodak
Moments”, toothy grins spread wide. Less clichéd when in front of a bright wall
of flowers than during other seasons.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Is that
yellow bird fan-dancing through the leaves a Kentucky Warbler or a
Yellowthroat? But, I know where my bird book is.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Trees and
grass show off a light green. The sun is warm and plans develop unhurried by
distracting insects or cold winds. No rush. It seems this could last forever.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Couldn't be
better!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Thick</i></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>Pushing
through dense air and vegetation.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Bug repellent,
headbands, and hoses.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> I'm holding
on in the face of extreme heat and drought, continuing into the next day, and
the next, and … some herbaceous plants are giving up and collapsing. A few
small plants in pots leave this vale of tears. Where do they go? Should that be
“this <i>veil</i> of tears?”</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Main
activities: dragging hoses all over the yard, mixing dirt for new beds, and
top-dressing old ones later.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Trees and
grass settle into dark green.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Ah, some
summer flowers are showing off: daylilies, mimosa, milkweed. Butterflies are
getting attention. I forget how to tell the Spicebush Swallowtail from the dark
morphed Tiger Swallowtail. But, I know where the butterfly book is.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Scratching
bites. Where'd that poison ivy rash come from?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Ahhhh</i></b></span><i> (Finally)</i></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Temperatures
tick lower. Mosquito clouds thin.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> I work in my
undershirt without defending against bugs or cold. Neighbors look the other
way.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The best
time of year for planting and transplanting.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Dreaming of
next year. We'll expand that bed and top-dress the other. Do I want to start a
new bed by the fence now? Leave it 'til later?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Fall asters
and sedum are still attracting butterflies.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Dragonflies!
Is that an Eastern Pondhawk or a Slaty Skimmer? But, I know where the dragonfly
book is.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Tree leaves
surviving, a little worn and bug-bitten. Grass browning.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Brown</i></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>The
world turns brown, up and down.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Still
planting and transplanting. Give the roots time to settle in and feed.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Raking and
making. Leaves turn into compost, which turns into top-dressing for beds.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Is that leaf
from a Pin Oak or a Spanish Oak? But, I know where my tree book is.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> New life
amid the old strife: arum and rohdea japonica start to grow in the cool winds,
to die back the next summer, now sharing the newly thinned beds with erect
hellebores. Are those really crocus and daffodil shoots expanding above the
surface?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Flashes of
orange and red. That's why I grow Japanese Maples. And some of the azalea
leaves are blazing red and yellow. Wow, that sky is <i>really </i>blue!</span></div>
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<b><i>And Again … <span style="font-size: large;">Dark</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A new season
of cold and stasis wraps around the calendar, and into my mind, pushing me back
through the door, to room temperatures echoing the African savanna I was
created for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Will this
cold wind never end?</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Fade to
Dark.</span></div>
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<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>You're Being Put on Noti</b><b>ce</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><br />
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<b><i><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></i></b><span style="font-size: large;">Humans notice what they want to notice, though
each has their own focus.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Birds?
What birds?</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man enjoys a vacation
in France, even taking the TGV from north to south. He reports to his friend, a
birder, how much he enjoyed the trip and how much he saw. The friend asks, “Did
you see any birds?” The man shrugs, “No.” The birder's eyes pop. “You traveled
through a whole country and didn't even see one bird?” The reply, “No.” Of
course he <i>saw</i> many birds, but didn't <i>notice</i> them or remember
them.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i>Lawn?
What lawn?</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day I showed a
co-worker a photo of some of my azaleas taken in the back yard. Expecting
perfunctory compliments, I was floored when he simply said, “Don't you ever mow
your lawn?” I hadn't even <i>noticed</i> I <i>had </i>a lawn. At least, not in
that picture. My yard-life is dominated by the care of azaleas and some other
flowering plants. A lawn? I sort of remember mowing the lawn occasionally, I
think. The area of the yard others call a “lawn” is, for me, a collection of
low, herbaceous green stuff: clover, plantain, crabgrass, Stiltgrass,
dandelion, Creeping Charlie and the like. They're green. I'm fine with green.
My standard line is: “When the weeds in my yard green-up, it must be spring.”</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQ4G8uVGEhWf2NZ7NfUzIsgzapDm-r6LIl0n-xmQtp9ZwKuey1ZJiLVKCdwO26fM-BoeedNW7Ox_JNp7qwtQ6vLCNRctRYfe8QVMSezD1fM_7PNSb7TrA0Bx1nsHR2klwQacsLNvrM4A/s1600/2019-06-07+Astilbe+BL+Shade+Bed+scaled.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1182" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzQ4G8uVGEhWf2NZ7NfUzIsgzapDm-r6LIl0n-xmQtp9ZwKuey1ZJiLVKCdwO26fM-BoeedNW7Ox_JNp7qwtQ6vLCNRctRYfe8QVMSezD1fM_7PNSb7TrA0Bx1nsHR2klwQacsLNvrM4A/s640/2019-06-07+Astilbe+BL+Shade+Bed+scaled.JPG" width="472" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did you notice the Ground Orchid flowers? Don't look at the ground.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Bushes?
What bushes?</i>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which brings me to an
event last summer. A micro-burst had taken down a couple of large branches of
Red Maples (note to self: don't <i>ever</i> plant such brittle, short-lived
specimens!) The branches missed most of the azaleas, but were too big for my
handsaw, so I called a tree service, and they came the next day. I had them
take down a few small, dead branches from some oaks in the front yard, too, and
they were done in an hour. They showed they were a complete service team by
using a leaf blower to clean the lawn of debris, which was too small to bother
picking up by hand. Where did this debris go? Yes, you got it on the first try!
All over the azaleas, leaving them covered with “leavings,” leaving a clean
lawn, and leaving me to pry off the leaves and other debris from my favorite
plants. I'm sure <i>they </i>were sure homeowners would appreciate their
cleanliness. I'm sure, on average, they were right, as they <i>noticed</i> the
lawn and ignored the bushes.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bushes
are for workers to empty excess paint behind, drape hoses and tools over, and
hide other activities that would/should never be noticed by the homeowners.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I've
noticed that almost every hobby can be lonely.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I've
noticed that maintaining a large garden is a lot of work, not 100% successful
as winds, rains, droughts, bugs, branches, and maintenance workers torture it.</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: large; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I've
noticed that other people don't notice what I notice, though their variety make
the world more interesting. I'll give the universe a pass on that!</span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-79817287882827408792019-12-19T09:43:00.001-05:002019-12-19T09:53:04.506-05:00Snow<div align="CENTER" style="border: medium none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Snow</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Snows have a personality. We remember them as we
remember people. Sometimes it is a fine, soft coating of vanilla,
enjoyed from our picture window with a favorite beverage keeping us
company. Comforting. A good friend. Some are heavy, wind-whipped and
bitter. An acquaintance from whom we can't wait to move on.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Remember the excitement of being a student, desperately
hoping for a snow day? On the day of a test? Which you were not
prepared for? In that class you hated? So you could binge on snacks,
TV, DVDs and video games? And still not study for the test? The snow
from a beneficent deity.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMwQT08K1xeKBuu7Hn2-DBC_KuZ5ISjYcgY4wSBoHoj0kOwDo-VPUT17XM7tclzAVfqy_nK2SKnlb3akcicuDUO0xIHkT0PMp-aGOKwmTH3dWZqWs-F67oIBeOVEg3BrIhlVL8a2BRrc/s1600/2010-02-08+2+days+after+19+in+scaled.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMwQT08K1xeKBuu7Hn2-DBC_KuZ5ISjYcgY4wSBoHoj0kOwDo-VPUT17XM7tclzAVfqy_nK2SKnlb3akcicuDUO0xIHkT0PMp-aGOKwmTH3dWZqWs-F67oIBeOVEg3BrIhlVL8a2BRrc/s640/2010-02-08+2+days+after+19+in+scaled.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snowmaggedon, 2010-02-08, 19 inches here in Northern VA. The falling evergreen on the right didn't survive.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Don't tell anyone: teachers pray for snow days more
than kids do! As a teacher living in the southern part of my county,
I've enjoyed days when schools were canceled due to heavy snow north
of us, while my region of the county, southeast of the Piedmont in
the coastal plain, only had rain. Time for my wife and I to hit the
malls!</span><br />
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> For gardeners, snow has its beneficial side and its
no-good-branch-cracking horrible side. Cold, dry snows sift through
plants, land on the mulch and eventually melt gently, deeply into the
soil. Mother nature shivers, but smiles. However, warmer wet, heavy
snows may pile up on the leaves and branches, bending the lucky ones
to the ground without damage, snapping into compost the unlucky ones.
A vengeful deity, smiting all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Late snows and cold slow the spring flowering, burying
crocuses, delaying daffodils, killing azalea buds. March snows are
worse than ones in January. At the first of the year, spring is last
year's photograph, and an uncertain hope. In March we've smelled that
spring and want the warm, sunny days. Here. Now.</span><br />
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I still look around the yard and identify damage from
storms over twenty years ago. Some snows have killed parts of plants.
Some have bent branches to the ground, where they took root and
extended the parent plant in a process known as “layering.” In at
least two cases, the parent has died and the plant lives on in that
layered section. I thank that snow now, but I didn't then. Judging
snows is like judging people. Some you hate, some are just
irritating, some you appreciate, and some you love. Sometimes it
takes years to decide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Looking back on life, I made the same delayed judgments
about several events as I did about snow: being forced to learn
things I didn't want to, getting a job that was my third choice, and
breaking up with a girl friend. Yet, everything turned out fine.
Thinking I can predict the future is a strange illusion. That
realization has developed slowly, as snow falling gently, building
up, its depth hardly noticed.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-74662082625703500032019-11-20T14:14:00.000-05:002019-11-20T16:20:46.186-05:00Rain<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Rain</b></i></span></span></div>
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</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “If the good Lord willin' and the creek don't rise.”</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Watcha gonna do when the well runs dry?”</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Who'll stop the rain?”</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Okies.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Mae West, and I, have said, “Too much of a good thing
can be wonderful!” I was thinking of chocolate, among other things,
and will still defend the quote.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Free water, falling from the skies, is so necessary for
life above the oceans that it's prayed to and mythologized. Its
comings and goings control man: civilizations such as the
Babylonians, Mayans and Anasazi; subgroups such as the people from
the lower plains who invaded California in the 30's; the exodus from
New Orleans in 2005, Houston in 2017, and the California fires. All
because the rains don't behave. Mae West didn't behave either, but
she didn't result in much devastation.</span><br />
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<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> People have been paid to bring rain: Witch doctors,
psychics, con-men with secret machines, scientists spraying silver
iodide, people who step on ants. Militaries have studied weather
control for their own ends.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> As of this writing, people still die in floods, crops
rot in the fields, and drought ensures fires. No one demonstrates
control.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Which brings me to rain-making solutions that are well
known, underused and you should try: washing your car, watering your
lawn and garden, planning an outdoor wedding, buying expensive
tickets to a baseball game, losing part of your roof to any one of a
thousand threats, and leaving your convertible top down for the
night. I don't have a convertible, so I drag my hoses and body parts
around the front and back yard in mosquito-infested humidity. My
desires for a huge garden were bigger than my anti-mosquito
capabilities, forcing a downsize.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The Mid-Atlantic climate gives my garden enough rain
each year. Unfortunately, the distribution of the rain allows heat,
deluge, and drought, all of which can kill. I'm not able to water the
garden enough to save everything, including the small plants with
inadequate roots. The planting distribution needs to be compacted.
Fewer plants in less space. I've talked before about the difficulty
of giving away more plants each year than I get, but that is hard.
Most of what I have now I want to keep.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> When I began writing this a couple of years ago, we'd
just completed a record sequence of days of drought, followed by a
record sequence of days of rain. For my land, any summer rain is
welcome, but the drought period cost me 1½ Japanese Maples and a
nice, large Glenn Dale azalea, though I tried to keep everything
watered.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Returning to this essay now, I'll add that recent
floods killed ten azaleas this late winter and spring. Those areas
will be rebuilt with more dirt and increased drainage. Root damage
due to the flooding (azaleas aren't pond plants) makes the survival
of some others problematical.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> One solution to the summer droughts is to stock up on
spring ephemerals that look great in April and May, then collapse in
the summer's heat. But no, their garden palette is too limited.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Another solution is to buy watering systems that turn
on and off with the flick of a wrist, covering the whole yard. Not
for me. I need the money for old age medical bills. And food.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, severe droughts,
blizzards, and haboobs are all extreme forms of weather that man, as
a species, if not specific individuals, has survived. Far from the
equator, people surround themselves with clothing and buildings. My
garden doesn't wear clothes and is not “inside.” Will it last
until the next rain? Similar to child rearing, it's a struggle with
an uncertain outcome, but the rewards for success are enormous!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I <i>do</i> have a perfect solution to the problems
above but I've run out of space to tell you about it on this sheet,
and I've got to go out now and move the hoses <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Tote that Barge, Lift that Bale</i></b></span></span></div>
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[ Continuing to beat
the dead horse, started in the essay “Work Harder, Not Smarter” ]</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Lifting
weights is fine. The weights go up. The weights come down. The weights go up.
The weights … <i>watch your head</i>! Well, you've gotten stronger. Hope the
weights enjoyed their journey to nowhere. Were you generating electricity with
those back and forth motions? No? Were you shooing away mosquitoes? Demonstrating
a dance? Keeping warm? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Let
me recommend gardening. All the motions and stresses found in the gym are
available, including stretching at odd angles (yoga), sitting in funny
positions (pilates) and swatting at mosquitoes (dance). But, you're <i>creating</i>
something!</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Picking
up a leaf might be a stretch, but my leaf pile, years in the making and
sometimes taller than I, is more than enough if you want to practice deadlifts.
A pitchfork, stuck in the bottom, could not be lifted straight up by any
champion powerlifter.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Repeating the beautiful picture from July's essay: turning over this leaf/compost pile would exhaust a powerlifter!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A
trowel full of dirt may be elevated by a child, but a shovel full of wet clay,
lifted from the bottom of a hole, will be enough to tire you after ten or
twenty repetitions.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Mixing
a variety of items in a wheelbarrow, such as clay, pine fines, compost, humus
and chemicals is easier than digging holes, until you've done this for fifteen
minutes without a break. Aerobics!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Walking?
Constantly moving from holes and beds to the work area and back, dragging my
butt and hoses all over the yard to water, getting and bringing back tools to
the shed (don't lose them in the leaf litter!), and running from packs of
wolves or rabid chipmunks will put up large numbers on a steps-per-day meter.
Enough to brag about. Exhausted, the step-meter will beg to be returned to the
store.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I've
written elsewhere of the horrors of labor-saving devices, as my garden
experience centers around a shovel, a rake and a wheelbarrow. No, I don't cut
my lawn with scissors, but it gets done when my wife gently notes that she lost
her car in the savanna as high as an elephant's eye and has also discovered
where I hid the mower.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So,
yes, I do use labor-saving devices, including my car, which saves me from
walking miles back home from the store carrying dirt and chemicals. But, I'm
not proud of that. Maybe in my next life you'll see me moving down the highway,
stiff and erect, bags of mulch balanced in a tippy pile atop my head. And,
you'll be jealous.</span></div>
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</xml><![endif]-->Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-78565000958163102072019-09-18T09:39:00.000-04:002019-09-20T10:06:32.029-04:00Put Down that Shovel and Step Away<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Put
Down that Shovel and Step Away</b></i></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Cruising the net, this post from the
Federal Department of Warnings caught my eye:</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Don't Garden </i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , serif;"><i>{GPO
2019-I-20- 314159}</i></span></span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Classified
</i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , serif;"><i>xxNN</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>For
public release </i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , serif;"><i>2020-01-02</i></span></span></div>
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</span>
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</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> To maximize the
de-obfuscation of collateral work among siloed agencies, the
following has been deemed of value to stake-holders. Attempts have
been made, under directive Dept. of Agriculture </i><span style="font-family: "courier new" , serif;"><i>2003-01-19</i></span><i>,
to maximize clarity. Internalize the following:</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> This department
has been flooded with injury reports since it opened its
investigation into the large number of gardeners who have died in the
last 200 years. Unfortunately, our computers weren't able to keep
track of the varieties of gardening injuries reported. The total
exceeded their capacity. As a result, we've terminated this study and
issued an alert.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> I was too upset to
continue reading.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Is my garden a
menace?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Stepping stones
could be loose. Or slippery.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Holes could twist
your ankle, sneaking up and grabbing your foot when you're looking
elsewhere.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Dirt is a sea of
pathogens. Have you heard of flesh-eating bacteria? I once lost a
trowel. Trowel-eating bacteria? They aren't above suspicion.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Plants appear
uninvited. Smilax and Green Stick have thorns capable of sticking
through you to the nearest tree and letting you hang there, impaled.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Poison Ivy reminds
you of your close encounter with any part of the plant, even two
weeks after contact. The scratching is distracting. And … I …
can't … stop …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> If a tree fell on
you, it wouldn't matter if it was poisonous.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> There's even a tree
with horror-movie sized spines on both its trunk and large branches.
I guess if you needed to scratch your back after encountering the Poison Ivy …</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqGUt5KSQtcSbIb9VXAQM-fBNRpnG2Pz85MyDjqmVoxtCP9BIr3TK7sW6NLsqhwftqpp_wyPrRpLfIOxo33HSipZ8JLcEMBsLaXz6onMb7A0e6sSaiKfZLzVaJn3ekhZPeyfsshY32n8/s1600/Thorny+Tree+Bark+10-31-09scaledcropped.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="666" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqGUt5KSQtcSbIb9VXAQM-fBNRpnG2Pz85MyDjqmVoxtCP9BIr3TK7sW6NLsqhwftqpp_wyPrRpLfIOxo33HSipZ8JLcEMBsLaXz6onMb7A0e6sSaiKfZLzVaJn3ekhZPeyfsshY32n8/s640/Thorny+Tree+Bark+10-31-09scaledcropped.JPG" width="624" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A non-native tree which volunteered in my yard.</td></tr>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> What about the
animals?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Mice could carry
plague. White-footed mice live in the leaf litter and try to get
inside the house when the weather freezes. Similarly, voles, moles
and shrews.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Rabies naturally
infects mammals: squirrels, fox, raccoons, possum, and deer.
Don't let them bite! Just because I've never met anyone who has been
bitten by a deer doesn't mean the danger isn't lurking.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Would you believe
mosquitoes are less fun than a barrel of monkeys? And they can pass
on virus' such as Zika, West Nile, and other such nasties.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> While cleaning out
some deadwood, home to a black widow spider, I wondered if thick
gloves are enough.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Snakes? Doesn't
everyone love snakes? Hmmm ...</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The weather hangs
over us. Heat stroke, frostbite, lightning strikes, tornadoes.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Is that a complete
list?</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Man-made dangers
include: pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, stepping on the business
end of a rake and getting a concussion when the handle nails you
(though we've all laughed when people in old movies hurt themselves
that way,) scratching ourselves on a rusty nail or frayed metal
screen, backing into … well, anything that we don't expect (note to
self – never back up).</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Over the years, a
set of injuries has slowed me. And stopped me. Lower back pain was
deadly when it was time to dig holes and mix piles of dirt. The
garden had to be patient. I'd be back. Wrist pain prevented pulling
weeds and screening compost. A minor operation idled me for a couple
of months. One could argue that gardening caused or worsened all of
those.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> But seriously,
folks (where have I heard that line?): pain isn't humorous. Having a
root in a muddy hole snap back and paint your face with wet, sticky
stuff? Now <i>THAT'S</i> funny!</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span>
<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Government warnings
are serious. Go back inside and collapse with a bag of Cheetos and
reruns. What could go wrong?</span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-88669929818263904192019-08-19T16:29:00.000-04:002019-08-19T16:29:24.938-04:00See, I've Got These Tomatoes
<h2 align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>See, I've Got these Tomatoes ...</b></i></span></span></h2>
<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">People assume.</span></span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> If you are very tall, a lot of questions from strangers
will start with basketball, despite the fact that you might not have
played it, and despise it. If you are old, a question about what it
was like to be in the civil war might upset you. Young people can't
distinguish between a forty year old and an eighty year old. They're
both old people. So the civil war question is hardly out of the
question.</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> My garden is mostly azaleas under towering oaks. Some
hosta, ferns and heucheras are nice accents. Shade gardening is what
I do. On hearing I'm a gardener, a new acquaintance will ask about
vegetables which require a lot of sun: normally tomatoes, but
sometimes summer squash.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The answer will depend on my mood and how I want to
appear. Despite the fact that I know as much about veggies as a city
dweller with a patio-poised potted petunia, there will be times when
the desire for an air of infallibility pops out. If I was just
introduced to a group of strangers as an expert in gardening, I might
want to preserve that fiction, at least for a short time, and
preferably for a period after my mouth opens.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barney attempts to wake up both people who came for his talk.</td></tr>
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</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Another time might be when I've finished a talk before
a garden club and am fielding questions. Here, the aura of “the
sage on the stage” is a wearable cloak, until I get home and am
told that I have to take out the trash and mow the lawn. Everyone has
an ego, and I've decided not to fight mine, but just to go with it.
Now we come to the moment in the bullfight where I either insert the
sword or dodge the horns. I could say something that I half remember
from a website, or another person's remarks: “Yes, eight hours of
sunlight is best, but keep them watered and well drained.”
Brilliant, and fits every sun-loving plant. Oh, they wanted to know
about fertilizer? “Some 20-20-20 in the spring before blooming will
get them off to a good start.” Again, seriously generic. How could
that be wrong? Well, what if the question was a step above
fertilizing, such as stopping blossom-end rot, or the best companion
plants for Bell Peppers? Now the bull has me trapped against the
fence. Time to bow out, gracefully. Once more, I can shuck-and-jive,
hoping the next semi-answer will end the line of questioning, or I
can smile weakly and return to the reality that I don't really know
everything about everything.</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> If a talk is going well and I've built up some
credibility, its strength might carry a weak answer and few would
notice. If a talk is not flowing well and the audience has discovered
the joy of their smart phones, then there might be nothing to lose.
But do I want to give them a dumb answer, anyway?</span></span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> If we could assign probabilities to the alternatives,
as in behavioral economics, then the choice would be the answer with
the expected gain greater than the expected loss. OK, that's not
going to happen. Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahnemann is not sharing
the stage, calculator in hand.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Sometimes I DO want to give a generic, possibly
misguided, answer and try to look magisterial. Sometimes I'm happy to
say, “I don't know. I just grow azaleas. Anyone here wanna see a
magic trick?”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
</div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-91935294634667548552019-07-20T17:31:00.001-04:002019-07-20T17:31:17.410-04:00Learn, Baby, Learn<h2>
</h2>
<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Learn, Baby, Learn</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span><br />
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">If I told you to put a lot of organic matter<sup>*</sup>
in your soil before planting, you might say:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;">
</span><br />
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">a) “Ok.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> b) “What's organic matter <sup>*</sup>?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Or c) “Who are you? Why are you talking to me? And
get that shovel out of my face!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All three are valid answers. In any event: time to
“larn you up.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Organic matter: my leaf pile, someday rotting to compost, in front of a 4' fence for a size comparison.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;">I've had a squirrel-proof bird feeder in my back yard
for over 40 years. It's on a pole with a loose baffle. Squirrels
climbing the pole can't get past the metal baffle, as their weight
tilts it down, and the top, rounded surface is too slippery to climb.
Until the last week or so, when I watched a squirrel actually get
some traction on that surface and pull himself up. After seeing this
same squirrel accomplish such thievery several times, the baffle was
drowned in silicone spray. We'll see. How do I know it was the same
squirrel each time? Among the hoard of gray squirrels, it alone was
almost black. No other squirrel accomplished this thievery during the
week that I watched. Others didn't, or couldn't, learn from that
miscreant. A good thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I've read there was a chimpanzee who was taught to
understand and “speak” in sign language. It couldn't show any
other chimps how to do the same. Have you seen the “<b>Planet of the
Apes</b>” series of movies? Not a happy outcome for humanity. Maybe the
chimp's instructional failure was a good thing.</span></div>
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</span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> The ability to teach important details to one's own
species, often without a physical description to mimic, is a major
factor in man's overrunning the earth and holding its fate in his
hands. I hope that is a good thing.</span></div>
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</span><div align="LEFT" style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Some people say they have a brown thumb, but I contend
the difference between a brown thumb and a green one is knowledge.
Not “simply” knowledge, since learning isn't always trivially
easy, but knowledge <i>is</i> something that can be absorbed by
normal people with motivation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> If you want a green thumb, you may choose a minimal
amount of information to ensure your tomatoes grow well. Or, you may
learn about many other plants, and get your whole garden off to a
good start. Or, you could become obsessive, reading everything you
can, talking to everyone you find with a modicum of knowledge, and
even experimenting. Those options are all available to us through
some magic inherent in being human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So, I could teach you about “organic matter” and
the needs of your soil. We could chat, amiably, about pH and minor
nutrients. You would already know about the major nutrients. Friends
would come by to enjoy your garden and protest they could <i>never</i>
grow any plants that well. You would say, “I use a lot of organic
matter in my soil.” They would say a) "Ok", or b) “What's organic
matter <sup>*</sup>?” or c) …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">* - “organic matter”, in this context, is the
remnants of life: generally dead plants or parts of plants. Small
animals, fungus and bacteria will eat those remnants and break them
down to basic chemicals the roots of the plants in your garden
would love to have. Compost and humus are two forms that can be made
in the backyard or purchased. Mixing it into your soil before
planting, and top-dressing with it afterwards is always a good
strategy. Many books have been written on the subject of this
paragraph. I would recommend: “<b>Start with the Soil</b>” by <b>Grace
Gershuny</b> as an easy and intelligent introduction.</span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-8131278976804794052019-06-19T21:11:00.002-04:002019-06-19T22:13:18.317-04:00One Is Not Enough<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>One Is Not Enough</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Agreeing with the title, you would include peanuts,
chocolate and sex in your list of items that bear repetition. All
with that ineffable “Wow!” factor. Others could be mentioned, but
I'm typing pretty fast and don't have the time to go back, as I'm
late for dessert.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> 'Plants in a garden' also fits the title. Most plants
need to be among friends to have an impact. A single azalea doesn't
have the power of a cluster of them: I have a line of 3 'Daysprings'
by the driveway, 2 'B.G. Reds' in front of the porch, 2 'Renee
Michelles' around a large oak, etc. One 'Mildred Mae', by that same
oak, is old but, has layered so many times that she covers a lot of
ground, and is like the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">April 25, 2019 in the essayists garden</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A variety dominating an area gets the “Wow!”
factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I remember wandering in my garden, then turning around
and coming face-to-face with an explosion of bright purple 'Amoenum'.
The tallest plants were head-height and others surrounded it chest
high. The whole mass was an overwhelming statement!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Moving away from flowers, large clumps of a single
variety of hosta can draw your attention as a focal point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Several modest Japanese Maples in full fall color
demand you bow to them. A single one, larger than any one of the
grouping by itself, can't match that power. The mass of reds and
oranges will have you taking pictures from close up, far away,
horizontal, vertical, brighter, dimmer and polarized. Results will be
put into a folder titled “Wow!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The opposite of the above is dropping single plants
into a bed because space is available, or plants all from the same
hybridizer but looking individually different, or plants all grouped
because they carry the names of movie stars, or [insert silly reason
here: ...]. They don't mass and just seem random until you are
informed of their common links. That requires a slight grin and
chuckle: “How droll.” But, you don't say “Wow!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The opinion above doesn't apply in cramped
surroundings, where variety is a better goal than swarms. Small
decks, apartment patios, or townhouse backyards are candidates for
interesting varieties, where two of a kind would require the
exclusion of something else that screams “Hey. Over here. Look at
me!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> However, in a normal suburban backyard, after reducing
the grassy area by 80%, replacing it with something less
horticulturally mindless, trashing the hardscape design with a sledge
hammer, and tearing out the English Ivy, there will be space. Space
to stretch out and settle in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <i><b><span style="font-size: large;">“Wow!”</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Feel free to exclaim it again; even backwards!</b></span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-59702985726287597082019-05-24T14:09:00.000-04:002019-05-24T14:41:23.092-04:00Japan<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Japan</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> </b></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Back
from a 2-week cultural tour of Japan, organized by Overseas Adventure
Travel. Definitely recommended!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Not recommended: going there and back, starting with a
3-hour delay getting off the ground from Reagan-National Airport due
to a thunderstorm. At one time “getting there was half the fun”,
but now with delays, full flights, cramped seats, and other items you
are eager to add to that list, the fun starts on arrival. Jetlag is
only now beginning to recede for my wife and I, allowing a little writing about the
trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I had never been to the Far East, though you know,
without studying a map, the mid-section of Japan we visited was a
sliver of the giant that is Asia. Nonetheless, the two weeks were
packed with experiences and short talks on the history and nature of
Japanese society by a fine leader, Marika, and great companionship from
others on the tour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">W</span><span style="font-size: large;">e visited a number of gardens, many
connected with Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. I took pictures of nice landscapes and kept an ear out for birds. I didn't get to add too many to my lifelist. Time was
stolen from temple gates and incense to lean over hedges for a
glimpse of birds making a racket. They expertly hid, not knowing I didn't have a gun. Better to be safe. On
occasion they would slip up and show themselves, eventually allowing
me to add 18 species to the modest list I've kept for almost 50
years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> As for gardens, the style was formal in the extreme,
showcasing hedges that must have been manicured with nail clippers.
Quite the opposite of the naturalistic gardens in my area, and
backyard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> British gardens have the same formality with man's hand
dominating nature's attempts to be itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Powerful, rich people show their dominance of nature,
grabbing it by the throat and twisting it into artificial forms.
Possibly neither British nor Japanese gardeners influenced the other,
rather developing by “convergent evolution” toward the same
artificial idea. This convergence is apparent, for example, in birds
of different families developing similar structures (bills, feet,
etc.) for individuals with a need to survive in an evolutionary
niche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How are the two countries' gardens different? Japanese
gardens have more rocks and water features than I saw in Britain. A
scattering of stone lanterns seems to fill a need. English formal
gardens have elaborate fountains and statuary, celebrating myth and
glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you in on a
secret: I'm not rich or powerful! Who would'a thunk it?? My garden
will stay naturalistic, and I'll enjoy its woodsy setting. Here's
hoping your garden is a reflection of what you enjoy!</span></div>
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Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-21035506372261081902019-04-19T22:26:00.000-04:002019-04-19T22:26:09.729-04:00... And the Beat Goes On<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">… And the Beat Goes On</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
enjoy seeing other people's gardens, including those which are clearly better
looking than mine. However, I have an emotional problem when visiting. No one
has called 911 yet, while I was around, but let me explain.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
the beginning, there was darkness upon the yards, and then God created
Gardeners. Gardeners massaged the land to fit the physical and emotional needs
of humans: food and beauty. And it was good. Until mono-culture factory farming
displaced Gardeners who farmed the land. The factory farming put machines and
caretakers in place of those who loved doing what they were doing. At least
loved it more than they loved stacking boxes at Walmart, or pushing papers at
an insurance company. But, I digress.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Other
Gardeners, such as myself, went to work creating an enjoyable hangout. Okay,
no, I didn't go to “work” doing that, but it filled much of my after-work time.
And, it was good. And satisfying. And completely engrossing.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Landscapers
were not created by God. I'll let you work out their provenance. They blithely
note, “If you cut out all those hostas and ferns you could put in a great stone
patio, a central fountain, several tables and a wet bar!” They take a hunk of
change, drooling as they do, lay down a lot of hardscape, drop in some common
plants from Home Depot along the edges, take off, and are done. Done.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Done?
Gardening is never done. It's a work in progress. Gardeners will die, or be
dragged off to a nursing home, not screaming, but crying quietly. Their work
will be unfinished. They will lament that great stroke of genius, planned for
the next year, which will live only in their imaginations. Soon also to go. The
bushes will be flattened under the rusting hulks of the new owners' old cars,
the trees cut down to put up soccer fields, and a three-story house built
overlooking the neighbors' bedrooms.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What
real hobby is ever “done?” Does a chess player play a fine game and then quit,
having “done” chess? Does a runner run his best race and, exhausted, quit,
having “done” running? Do artists and writers finish a work and say, “I've done
the best that can be done. Time to watch daytime TV.” None that I've met.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
Landscaper is “done.” A Gardener is involved in the flow of his work, stopping
when it is too dark. [Note: a well known Gardener/hybridizer sets up large
floodlights and keeps working, but he may be <i>too</i> focused on the flow.
When it's dark, it's time for dinner. But I digress.]</div>
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<br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone else's garden</td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oh,
wait, I had started to talk about my “problem” when visiting other's gardens.
The problem is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I <i>can't stop</i>
gardening. I try to pick fallen branches and leaves off their azaleas, weed the
daylilies, and clip a wayward branch off the Japanese Maple. As my right arm is
reaching to right a visible wrong, my left hand grabs it and pulls it back, so
it's left at my side. Reminiscent of Dr. Stangelove's wayward arm. I've seen it
once or twice in my own garden, when clubs come to see the tiers of azaleas. A
few visiting Gardeners start twitching. In the interests of amity, I look away,
despite muttering “Get your _____ _____ hands off my plants!” It helps to
remember how hard it is when the situation is reversed.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Even
in someone else's garden, work is never done. Someday, someone <i>will</i> call
911 to stop my frenzied work on their plants. Maybe next year.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If I phone, will you post bail?</div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-28898687238413582232019-03-20T09:30:00.003-04:002019-03-26T18:10:07.104-04:00Pumpkin Pie in the Heat of July?<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
{{ My first garden essay,
concatenated with a later one. }}</div>
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<br /></div>
<h2 align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Pumpkin
Pie in the Heat of July?</b></i></span></span></h2>
<h2>
</h2>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
liked it at first.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A
vine had appeared with large blue flowers on a pole in a neighbor's
yard. I didn't remember seeing it on my jogs and decided that it must
have just been planted. A month later, the vine and flowers were
still there, exactly as they had appeared the first day. Come fall
and then winter, those large flowers on the vine were still shining
as gloriously as the day they were ejected from some Chinese factory.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Is
that homeowner's approach better than planting the vine, waiting for
the flowers and then cutting it down when it turns brown in November?
I tried to think why, and then remembered how much the tiny crocus'
are enjoyed in the brown dirt, snow patches, and dead leaves of late
winter. It was so long since I had seen any flowers and nothing else
was around for competition.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Why
do I like the yellow and blue Warblers of spring more than the birds
that visit my feeder? The warblers only pass through during a brief
window in May whereas the Chickadees, Cardinals and Blue Jays are
always here.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
dominance of azaleas in May, a mass of color in the landscape, is
like no other display and I'd rather be in my backyard then than
anywhere else. A wall of soft, bright color here. A blaze of garish
lights there. And of course they fade, but while our time with them
is short, it is special.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> We
don't eat pumpkin pie and drink eggnog in July. The few times that we
enjoy them are memorable.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Christmas
lights look great in the winter evenings, but a neighbor keeps a
small evergreen lit with them all year, and it just becomes part of
the woodwork.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The
flower colors of spring, the dark green dominance of summer and the
leaves of fall are pleasures that haven't been seen in a year and we
always look forward to the show. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
hate winter: cold, windy, icy, dark. But I grudgingly admit, without
that contrast the spring wouldn't look, feel, and smell as great. So
I'll raise a cup of hot chocolate to the collapsing thermometer, wait
for the first crocuses and give winter its due.</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">-
- - - - - - - -</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A
man crossed the street and approached me as I was puttering around in
the front yard. He was dressed as the Grim Reaper, without a scythe,
but still looked frightening. His face resembled mine, but that was
his problem.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Hi.
I'm Contrary Wise. I've read some of your essays and they make me
laugh.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “I'm
glad you like my jokes!”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “No,
your opinions are so dumb they make me laugh. You wrote the essay
'Pumpkin Pie In The Heat of July?', right?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Yes,
Contrary.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “You
can call me Wise,” he interrupted. “Anyway, you realize that it's
all garbage, right?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Umm
… .”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “The
whole idea is wrong. You were making fun of plastic flowers because
you liked the changes that the seasons gave you with real flowers.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Well,
yeah. It's nice to see stuff you haven't seen for a year.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Why
don't you just get plastic flowers?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Huh?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “After
a few weeks just pull out the plastic flowers you have and stick in
some different ones.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “I
don't know. I never thought of that. But it's nice to see them grow
up out of the ground.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “But
you wouldn't have to wait. You could see the flowers right away.”</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silk and Plastic flowers at Michaels. Low maintenance.</td></tr>
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</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Yes,
but it's nice to see them coming up.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “If
they didn't have flowers would you still plant azaleas?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “No.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Crocuses?
Daffodils? Tulips?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “No.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “So
seeing them come up out of the dirt like undead zombies isn't the
point. The flowers are. And with plastic ones you could have them
right away.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Well,”
I leaned on my shovel, “the anticipation is nice.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> He
stared at me.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “OK,
that's over-rated,” I acknowledged. “Flowers have fragrance!” I
was grasping at straws.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> He
continued to stare at me.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Maybe
azaleas don't,” I noted, “and hosta flowers don't, and heuchera
flowers don't, and hellebore flowers don't ...” I tried to think of
some that did. “Actually, if you kneel down in the mud you can
smell Snowdrops and Crocuses. Snowdrops are a little spicy and
Crocuses are a little sweet.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglw-jztdUs5mBsSToewjEm6tPrTHaJWxkmHuZI4AMySMGtFHHO-XAgoSXNKor5hr6lv5wvyugP1peGipOhc8ozoiIaiXI5ZN105aUQhkiUrJb37yj0NedvYD8mAUorJSQdkVpx9bAImno/s1600/Crocus%2527+2019-03-17+Bcroppedscaled.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1591" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglw-jztdUs5mBsSToewjEm6tPrTHaJWxkmHuZI4AMySMGtFHHO-XAgoSXNKor5hr6lv5wvyugP1peGipOhc8ozoiIaiXI5ZN105aUQhkiUrJb37yj0NedvYD8mAUorJSQdkVpx9bAImno/s640/Crocus%2527+2019-03-17+Bcroppedscaled.JPG" width="636" /></a></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Sounds
like a smelling point,” he sneered. “And if you're a few more
inches away?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Then
you have the anticipation of the scent! What do you have with plastic
flowers?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Spray-on
perfume.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Spray-on
… that's stupid. Why would you do that?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Beats
kneeling in the mud with your nose 6 inches off the ground.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “But
many plastic flowers have weird, unnatural colors.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Let's
hear it for variety!”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “I
can tell that you've never enjoyed the euphoria typified by a garden
in spring.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “'euphoria
typified'? Did you learn those words in essay-writing class?”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
just glared at him.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Then
I countered, “You do meet some great people in garden clubs!”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Point
taken. You're still 10 points behind.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “You're
ignoring all the other benefits of gardening. It's great exercise,
involving lifting, pulling and stretching.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “All
available with a home gym. And no cold hands or muddy knees. Or
mosquitoes.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “When
you are working in the garden you forget all your other problems.
You're just 'in the zone'. Very much like meditation.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “You
could do <i>real</i> meditation on your living room rug. Still no
cold hands, muddy knees or mosquitoes.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
thought some more. “Well, I <i>am </i>proud that I built something.
I built a garden.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “Take
a class in woodworking and build an end table.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “You
know, you're deflecting the issue. Exercise, meditation and
woodworking are all fine things. But if you're gardening you get the
best of them all, simultaneously.”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> “You're
deflecting the issue! You skipped away from plastic flowers, the soul
of a 21<sup>st</sup> century garden. Buy them with your credit card
and that's plastic growing plastic!”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I
wasn't getting anywhere with this guy who was thinking as fast as I
was. How could I explain the satisfaction of hard work resulting in a
fine looking garden? How could I explain <i>any</i> emotion?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Contrary
gave a satisfied, humorless grin. <i>His</i> hard work had given <i>him</i>
the satisfaction of a debate win. I couldn't think of a smooth,
devastating rejoinder. Maybe violence <i>is</i> the answer.
Sometimes. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> He
had me stumped. Maybe tomorrow I'll go by the variety store and look
at some plastic flowers. Not to buy, of course. Just to look … .</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Non-fiction
writers generally don't have such tools. Imagine you were writing a manual
covering the operations on a spreadsheet. Heart-stopping, right? Or suggesting
that a gardener consider a group of plants that might be small, but look good
on a border. You could say, “And they really look good along the border!” Kinda
grabs you right here, doesn't it?</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fiction
writers can put the buzz in our emotions. Love (of any type), fear (the
monster's chasing me!), hunger (those pancakes …), devotion (my life is
dedicated to ...), hope (things <i>will</i> get better), angst (oh, what will
become of me?), pain (<i>that</i> really hurt!), loss (my life has no meaning
now …), and a few others that they are happy to use to manipulate our attention
span.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As a
non-fiction writer I'm frustrated (an emotion!) by the smaller number of arrows
in my quiver.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
futility has to stop. Starting now, my essays will display a full range of
emotions and connect with the readers on a deeper level, or at least jack up
their hormone levels. Wait, that last is too technical and unemotional. Note to
editor: scratch that last line.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>To put the
new me on display, I offer the following non-fiction essay about my garden,
annotated for ease of study:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Approaching
the tall row of azaleas in full flower, the sun over my right shoulder catches
them in a montage of blaze and shadow. It warms them from the cool morning into
the sparkling day, as I am warmed by their beauty. (That's <i>LOVE</i> being
demonstrated now, for those of you whose attention has wandered.)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I look
up to follow the flight of a chickadee, I'm shocked to see a large, dead branch
hovering over hosta, scheming to mash the mortals below. (That's <i>FEAR</i>.
Are you taking notes?) Maybe it won't ever fall. (<i>FALSE HOPE</i>)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I should go
in and call a tree surgeon, but stomach-rumblings remind me that breakfast is
waiting, so first things first. (And now, <i>HUNGER</i>.) Trapped between the
strong chords that pull me toward the phone to save the hosta I've slaved over
for so many of my days (<i>DEVOTION</i>) and the equally strong desire to have
some pancakes with butter and syrup (Yeah, that's <i>HUNGER</i> again) I'm
frozen between incisive action and indigestion. Oh, what will become of my poor
plants? (<i>ANGST</i>)</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Clearly,
both paths require turning back toward the house, but as I stride purposefully
onward to do one of those two things, the ground rises to meet me and smacks me
in the face! (<i>PAIN</i>) I've tripped over my hose! No, not my socks, the <i>other</i>
kind. Who put that there? (<i>QUERULOUS</i>) Yeah, <i>I</i> did. (<i>SHAME</i>)
I'm going to feel really embarrassed (<i>EMBARRESSMENT</i>) when people see how
I'll have to go through life with all of those scars on my nose. (<i>LOSS</i>)
Who knows? But I'll face up to it! (<i>RESOLUTE</i>). So I pick myself up, dust
myself off, and start all over again! (<i>REMINISCENCE </i>from an old Sinatra
song.)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After such
a taxing, but fractionally enjoyable, morning I'm euphoric (<i>EUPHORIA</i>)
and head back inside, trying to remember what I was going to do there. (<i>QUERULOUS</i>
again; or, maybe advancing age.) Ah, yes, breakfast. But …</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I burnt my
pancakes!” (<i>DISBELIEF</i>, <i>LOSS</i>, <i>ANGST, HUNGER</i> and especially,
<i>SOUL CRUSHING HORROR</i>!”)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And then,
adding insult to my previous injuries, I remember the original purpose of my
morning's journey:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Marching
over to the 'Red Ruffles' azalea, I choose a flower, wipe off some pollen from
its anther, then rub that pollen on the pistil to make seeds for planting next
year. (You've been waiting so long for: <i>SEX!</i>)</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Best</i></b></span></span></h2>
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<br /></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Many years ago, when my collection of plants was small,
I tried to get the best azaleas. I knew that large, red flowers,
completely covering a bush, would be the best. I've chronicled
elsewhere my search for such. I thought I knew what was <i>best.
</i>Maybe I shouldn't have been so dogmatic. The concept of “best”
isn't simple.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnOVPVnSK4Eysm5rsKtBFcBcegNV8uEqovIVPphcOhKXO6GjzmyHc9HfuCUs3W7YpoB19z8lWjOQtY9eJn-kIVCuUJDSiVLfjDooLAe5Oa82Ersmbh1-C1PTCK0ZN5NUUVFAz8dcRKUzw/s1600/Valley+From+Western+End+5-21-09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1024" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnOVPVnSK4Eysm5rsKtBFcBcegNV8uEqovIVPphcOhKXO6GjzmyHc9HfuCUs3W7YpoB19z8lWjOQtY9eJn-kIVCuUJDSiVLfjDooLAe5Oa82Ersmbh1-C1PTCK0ZN5NUUVFAz8dcRKUzw/s640/Valley+From+Western+End+5-21-09.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The BEST landscape view, in my opinion. Tunnel View, Yosemite, May 2009</td></tr>
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For example:</div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> We're obsessed with celebrating the best. Who, or what,
is the best of maybe thousands. Second best is largely forgotten.
Consider the non-gardening examples in the odd collection below:</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> a) Pro Football fans will remember many Super Bowl
winners, but struggle when recalling the loser, a team ranking second
that year of 32.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> b) How would you compare baseball players Mickey Mantle
and Ken Griffey, Jr.? Mantle had several seasons better than any one
of Griffey's, but personal failings limited his number of years.
Griffey performed at a high level for many years. Performance is
measured by “Wins Above Replacement” (WAR). From 1952 to 1962
Mantle was the best or one of the best. Eleven years. This was
followed by a rapid decline. Ken Griffey, Jr. was a star from about
1990 to 2007, 27 years, never reaching as high as Mantle, but close. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> c) Bobby Fischer was the best chess player of his time,
not only based on rating, but also a World Championship. The man he
beat for that title, Boris Spassky, never attained the height of
Fischer's rating, but was still a World Champion and a feared
Grandmaster for many more years than Fischer's brief dominance.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Who's the
best writer? Do you think that Leo Tolstoy or George Orwell had #1 best
sellers?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The best
singer? In both categories, we can list people who have been one-hit-wonders
but had no staying power. Are they better than artists who have never attained
the top standing, despite being “one-of-the-best” for decades? Bruce
Springsteen and “Martha and the Vandellas” reached “only” #2 on Billboard.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There are no
metrics for comparing the best artists, philosophers, politicians, or
eccentrics (sorry, didn't mean to repeat myself). Every period of history has
examples of those unrankable categories, even with a NY Times bestseller list
available, or a Christie's Auction measuring value in dollars.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A transitive
relation says: if A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is
greater than C. Unfortunately,
real life has many non-transitive relationships. Suppose Oklahoma beats Texas
in football. Then Texas beats Ohio State. Logically, Oklahoma is better than
Ohio State. When Ohio State beats Oklahoma, we see that sports, and much of
life, is non-transitive. It happens all the time.</div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Another example: voting. With candidate A getting
40% of the vote, B getting 35%, and C winning 25%, voters have chosen
A as the winner. But if voters only chose between A and C, then C
would win. How is that possible? Well, one way would be that voters
for B, no longer able to vote for her, choose to back C, who would
get 60% of the vote. Voters for C <i>really </i>don't like A. It
happens all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The mathematical concept of an ordered lattice
contains items which can be ranked, but not necessarily compared, as
they're on different branches.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Finally back to gardening and azaleas!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Some plants massively cover themselves with flowers,
and are a focal point. Approaching, you realize that each individual
flower is not special in any way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> On the flip side, there are some plants with intricate,
multi-colored flowers that bear slow appreciation. But (you knew
there was a “but” coming) the plant's branches are scraggly and
uninteresting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Which of the two categories of plants is the “best?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In my garden, if a new bed could host hosta, ferns, and
heucheras, everything would be fine. If only one <i>type</i> could
appear, then varieties of hosta, which are larger, would be my
choice. But if I could only have one <i>plant</i> there, heucheras
would get my vote. Though small, they are much more colorful and
intricate. Which do I think is best?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Perhaps the concepts of “best,”, “We're Number
One!” and “Champion” need to be retired, living out their lives
on the porch, watching the world happily go by without them.</span></div>
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Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-66321307206291679192018-12-19T11:25:00.001-05:002018-12-19T11:25:40.715-05:00Early to Rise
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<span style="background-color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="background-color: white;"><span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Early
to Rise</span></span></b></i></span></span></div>
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I prefer flowers
that bloom in early spring. Not for any <i>emotional</i> reasons, but
for <i>reason</i> reasons. The convoluted explanation follows:</div>
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You don't have to
talk me out of winter. I'm way ahead of you. It wasn't in my plans to
shiver in the cold, but life turned that way. Strangely, some people,
somewhere, enjoy it.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I spent some time
in Wisconsin, wearing everything I owned, all at once. Before
visiting that state, my guess was that everyone must be saving for a
move. Strangely, they <i>loved </i> winter. Ice skating, hockey,
skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, snowball fights, igloos. OK,
nobody suggested igloos, but I may not have interviewed enough
people. Of course, this is the result of self-selection, as those
with “thinner blood” had migrated south.</div>
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I'm sure that
everyone in Seattle loves coffee, to get through the dark, drizzly
days, and beer to get through the dark, drizzly nights. A guess? No,
I <i>said</i> I was sure. Sun lovers escaped to California (a true
fact, as told to me by a Californian visiting Oregon at the same time
I was. Too plausible to doubt.)</div>
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<div style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
My wife and I met
in New England, but the cold, dark winters drove us south to the
Mid-Atlantic states. A good idea, but we missed by a few hundred
miles, as the winters here are still too long, too cold (and too
dark) for us. Too late, now.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of my earliest azaleas</td></tr>
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The above explains
why I've developed a preference for early blooming plants. After
suffering through the grays, browns and whites of winter, <i>any</i>
other color is in demand. Winter Jasmine's tiny yellow flowers would
be ignored at greener times than late winter. Crocus' are an early
treat, with yellows and purples. They overlap with the latest snows
and the earliest azaleas. Hellebores, whose flowers are barely there,
are still appreciated.</div>
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Once again, any
color will do, but there are more whites, pinks and orangy-reds among
the early azaleas than are found later in the year. Not my favorite
colors, but at that time of year I'll take them. Daffodils fill the
bill as bright additions. Blue-and-white Speedwell covers the ground.
Iris' add complex purple flowers to the mix.</div>
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Early flowers have
other good attributes: they grow in cool conditions, so they last
longer. The ground is well saturated from the winter snow melt, so
they don't dry out quickly. Fungus, such as petal blight, comes in
mid-May, so early azalea flowers don't suffer from that malady.</div>
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As the season
progresses, the weather warms and dries, providing fewer blooms.
Early summer daylilies will demand favoritism. Late summer milkweed
will claim butterflies to grab attention, but in autumn I'm already
looking forward to the end of the <i>next</i> winter, and those
colors impossibly popping from the cold, wet earth.</div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-3094350433492917122018-11-19T22:22:00.001-05:002018-11-19T22:53:52.004-05:00Flow<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Flow</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I've returned from a weekend trip to the Philly area
and now I'm thinking about “flow”. There was a river behind my
hotel which I would have liked to explore for birds, but time flowed
too fast to allow such a river-flow digression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> However, a digression: I'm a member of a book-study
group that lives on digressions and I recently mentioned the books on
flow written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (last name pronounced, I kid
you not, “Chick sent me high” - if I made that up no one would
believe me). I'm not going to talk about that type of “flow”
which involves focusing attention, though the concept is worthwhile.
But, I digress …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Just
as water is made of H</span></span></span><sub><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2</span></span></span></sub><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">O
molecules, which flow around each other, so traffic is made of
vehicles which flow around each other. Except when I drive to
Philadelphia. Word travels ahead of me and incantations are invoked
to stem that flow, so I spend large amounts of time studying the
interior of my car and unsuccessfully trying to peer around that
stupid SUV in front. Traffic flow gets my attention for its absence.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Once I reach the convention, narrow hallways between
the rooms constrict the human flow. Your first thought would be that
you could meet a lot of interesting people in that closeup
environment, but the truth is that everyone is late and pushing
through. So we remain strangers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The in-hotel restaurant handles flow well, except for
those breakfast and dinner times when we all demand to be served.
Then I look around and make poor jokes about getting out of line and
simply having a candy bar for dinner, getting weak laughs from people
within earshot. After ten minutes, however, I get out of line, buy a
candy bar and continue on to a panel discussion that started ten
minutes earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Oh,
“what about gardening?” you say. Well, I'm getting there, with a
confession. After reincarnation, I plan on coming back as a ditch
digger. You see, I </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">really</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
dig digging in the ditches which border my property. My neighbors
don't really keep up with them and they fill with debris (the
ditches, not the neighbors.) Flooding rains force me to dig,
releasing enough water so that the azaleas and hosta aren't killed.
Nature wants to put water lilies in those spots. Over the years, some
beds have sunk and, by not raising them, I've allowed plants to
die. This winter the Satsuki bed will have to be raised about four
inches or so.</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wapama Falls, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Yosemite, CA May 20, 2008 I did NOT dig the dirt releasing that water.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I
get a surprisingly strong satisfaction from sinking my shovel into
the final load of muck, releasing stagnant water, forming a healthy
stream. I </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">really</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
like that. Did I say that before? I don't remember.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> I
came back from my trip today in early afternoon. By late afternoon I
was digging in the southeast ditch. After talking with my neighbor, I
had the ditch on his side of the fence to myself as he did wheelies
on his riding mower, denuding the lawn of leaves. Luckily he agreed
to throw the leaves over the fence onto my leaf pile. In five years
it will be compost for top dressing the azaleas. But I hardly
noticed. After two hours of lifting muck, roots and leaves, and
watching the water move slowly toward the drain by the road, it began
to get dark and was time to quit. How could two hours pass so
quickly? Completely the opposite of the traffic jam, I was so focused
that time didn't exist. I simply enjoyed the experience. Just as
Csikszentmihalyi said. But, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">just
said that I wasn't going to talk about his book …</span></span></span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-41540174473650021112018-10-19T15:12:00.001-04:002018-10-19T22:27:14.769-04:00Garden Harder, Not Smarter<div align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Garden Harder, Not Smarter</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I was horrified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> It's easy to horrify me. Newspapers and TV news succeed
daily. I expect it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> What I <i>didn't</i> expect was to read a gardening
newsletter today and find feelings of horror reawakened. An article
titled “Garden Smarter, not Harder,” was reprinted from another
newsletter, so clearly more than one person liked it. Perhaps you've
read many of these listings of clever ways to do things quickly and
without effort. In no time at all you're on the coach, feeling that
you've earned the next three hours of beer, chips and TV golf.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You want to work smarter in the garden? Use a computer!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> No, <i>no</i>, NO! If I listed below all the articles
in magazines and newspapers, as well as self-help books explaining
the value of exercise, the internet would be full and shut down. OK,
if you argue that shut down's a good thing, I'll listen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> There are so many studies showing our life span
extending with more exercise, as well as our health span, there is
hardly an argument against activity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I remember a very old joke: “I get my exercise going
to the funerals of my friends who exercise.” Well, at least the
jokester is getting <i>some</i> exercise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Running and walking are still the best, most
time-efficient exercises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Don't use a wheelbarrow to carry sticks to the compost
pile. Make two trips and carry them in your arms. The walking is a
credit toward your future. Carrying the wheelbarrow, is even better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A riding mower? Seriously? A gardener shouldn't have
masses of grasses. Turn the area into a large patch of azaleas and
hosta. Year-by-year, shrink the grassy areas until they're just paths
through your garden beds. Then a push-mower will be fine. Don't push
me or I'll go on about how a push-mower still beats a riding mower:
muscle exercise of calves, thighs, glutes, pecs, forearms. Good for
the heart, lungs, digestive system. You'll sleep better, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> When age and prior injuries make it difficult to do
something, do it anyway, but slower. Dig that hole with a trowel, not
a shovel. With a spoon, not a trowel. Whatever you can manage. You're
not late for anything when you're gardening; you're involved; in the
moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A garden is never done. That's the fallacy of a
landscape architect. The entrepreneur struts in, creates a garden
with a pile of hardscape, patio furniture and plants from a big box
store, then walks away with a check in her purse. Done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> No, <i>no</i>, NO! A gardener's garden is never
finished. Improve the soil in the beds. Replace a good plant with a
better one. Move one that doesn't look so good over there to a place
by the ferns. Trim a couple of branches to let in more light. Prune
some bushes to make them appear more dense. (But, if you make them
look like gumballs, I'm coming after you. I know where you live.)</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Skip the power equipment. If cutting up the fallen
branch with a hand saw takes three days instead of one, OK.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Planning a new bed, digging the hole, mixing the soil
for it, planting, mulching, and watering the new arrivals may take
months. OK. But, do it by hand.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Don't forget to invite me over to see the results. I'm
waiting, camera in hand, and I won't be horrified!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-87411431385897778282018-09-19T13:47:00.002-04:002018-09-20T16:11:53.329-04:00Surprises<h2 align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Surprises</b></i></span></span></span></h2>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Surprises engage our memory and attention as routines
can not. They almost seem to alternate between good and bad. For
example:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Turning around mindlessly and suddenly facing a mass of
color from an azalea swarm.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> A long drought where you suddenly realize that the
whole garden needs watering. NOW!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> A late snow on newly opened flowers; an attractive
juxtaposition, photo-worthy for remembering years later.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> A deep, heavy snow that breaks tree limbs and the
branches of bushes, leaving visible scars years later.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Azaleas with flowers in November or December, when
those plants were expected to go to sleep.</span><br />
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Tripping while jogging or slipped while gardening.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Photographing a giant, colorful garden spider with a
dew-covered web in the first rays of the sun.</span><br />
</div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Discovering last night's deer damage.</span><br />
</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What's that weird thing? Surprise! It's a Luna Moth hanging upside down under a rose bush leaf!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A large dragonfly warming up in the morning chill,
resting on a favorite plant.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> A squirrel running up my pant leg while avoiding the
charge of another, sharp claws digging in, unaware I'm not a tree
until I bend over and scream at it.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Finding a garter snake, harmlessly wrapped around the
roots of a small azalea being transplanted, both ready to share their
sleep through the winter.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Planting some Japanese Maple seeds and, two years
later, still waiting for them to emerge. A slow motion
disappointment.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Receiving a free plant in the fall called 'Boring Pink'
and discovering the next spring that its flowers are bright white
with red flecking exploding all over. Like being asked to move from
coach into First Class to “balance the plane”.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> Photographs delude us, pretending we well remember
people and places from our past. Surprises create true memories,
recreated in detail. For a moment, we are in the experience: cold
wind, warm sun and all.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Garden of the Future</i></b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wish I
could sprinkle some magic dust on a seedling in the morning and have a 12'
plant, beaming with flowers, by afternoon. I wish every plant in the garden
were impervious to disease, drought and predators. I wish there were special
glasses to make every flower look great to the observer, no matter who was
wearing them or what his favorite colors were. I wish vegetables were grown to
taste, such as bacon-flavored cucumbers or mango-infused corn. Those wishes
won't be answered for a <i>long </i>time.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The following
thoughts, though, involve improvements that could be available <i>now</i> given
the total dedication in finances, manpower and time of the government. Worthy
endeavors all.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>RFID
chips for rapid identification: </b>It would be great to just point a wand at a
plant and immediately know everything about it. I actually looked into these a
few years ago after I discussed the idea with someone at a convention. While
the expense was manageable, the hassle of programming for each plant, creating
the chip, and burying it deeply enough to discourage squirrels, but shallow
enough to be read easily by a wand, was too much. Also, setting up the database
with easy entry of plant info such as name, hybridizer, flower and habit
characteristics, date of planting, transplanting history, etc., was complex. In
fact, it would be great if I could just pass the new plant in front of my
hand-held DNA analyzer, discovered yesterday as a prize in a box of cereal. The
data would be automatically loaded and backed up to the cloud. This is likely
to be available sooner than other tools, below.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Virtual
Reality tours: </b>Video games let you wander through an imaginary world. Let's
create that world as your garden looks, at its best. Record every aspect,
turning in every direction from every spot and then, when cold January comes
around, July for Aussies, simply strap on your headset and view the garden in
color with stereo vision and stereo sound. Tilt the joystick to move any way
you wish at any point in the yard and remember how it was, and will be again.
Look up to see the Cardinal among the crab apple blossoms, or the
Red-shouldered Hawk enjoying the clouds. Look down to see the heucheras, ferns
and hosta. Would it be too extreme to also breathe in the spring perfumes?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Compact
explosives to dig holes:</b> Given some of these shaped charges, I would make
my holes deeper and wider than I currently have the energy for. In fact, the
grassy areas of my shady yard would quickly become a memory as those poorly
growing blades would be replaced by shade-loving ground covers and larger
bushes. But not English Ivy. I couldn't find any county permits for exploding
one's suburban back yard.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A table-top Cyclotron at Houghton College. Photo by Tim Koeth from Symmetrymagazine.org</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>A
Table-Top Cyclotron: </b>Casually wander into your garden shed and irradiate
piles of seeds or pollen. Who knows what mutants will be produced from this?
Such machines already exist, and would be great to get one from Amazon for
$79.99 and start a mad-scientist eruption of hybrids in your back yard. They
all would be different than your neighbor's plants, and a few might even be
keepers. Getting a license for a nuclear reactor on your workbench might be the
obstacle here. I should try to get a license for the compact explosives first.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Genetically
modified plants that glow at night: </b>Why enjoy our flowers only in the
daytime?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about taking genes that
control bio-luminescence from lightning bugs or fish and put them into our
plants? I've seen videos of lightning bugs in the Amazon filling many trees and
all flashing in sync. Wouldn't it be great to have your whole yard flashing
that way? Or different beds flashing in their own rhythms? Or choreographed to
music? And the colors change with the rhythm? That's all done now with
Christmas lights. I want my azaleas to do that, too!</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b>Hunter-Killer
Drones: </b>Each of 100 sub-miniature drones in your yard would be equipped
with an audio detector for seeking out mosquitoes, and a laser for shooting
them down. After clearing the yard of those pests the drones would be
reprogrammed to hunt down flies. It would take a little more engineering to zap
ragweed pollen, but that's just a simple matter of programming.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>None of the
above are physically impossible and could be implemented with sufficient
political muscle. We need to encourage the governments of the world to fund the
pleasures of creation by forming the <b><i>Garden Party</i></b> and electing
our own bed of candidates!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Pots</i></b></span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> If you're not in a hurry to leave after visiting my
azalea garden, we could wander over to the work area on the side,
littered with pots.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Not empty pots. Pots with azaleas, hosta and Japanese
Maples. Pots with potential. Ladies in waiting. Some are for the
future garden. Some don't make the cut because they're burdened with
unattractive flowers. Some don't grow well, or they have few flowers,
or they displease me (their master) for some inexplicable reason.
Those pots become giveaways to visitors, put on the plant exchange
table at club meetings, or exiled to Siberia (the far reaches of the
yard where the soil is poor and my hose doesn't extend.) They will
fend for themselves, surviving on the whim of the god of orphans.
While I haven't composted any, that is still a threat I hold over
their branches when they fail to justify themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> After four or five years, they are keepers or are
expelled. Keepers find a place in the garden, often replacing a plant
I found inferior. Then I've got to find a place for the original
owner of that plot. Musical chairs, played to the hum of mosquitoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Potted plants face an array of dangers. They are always
threatened with being tipped over by wandering critters. Looking for
acorns or mice, the wild ones can tear out the whole plant and leave
it gasping on the ground, roots exposed, hoping I'll notice and come
to the rescue. Plants dry out faster in the pot than if they were in
the ground. Being portable encourages moving them frequently,
sometimes cracking the plastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> There are so many problems that one wonders why a
better system hasn't been invented. Some think a better system is to
take each plant out of the pot when it first comes home and plant it
immediately. Good idea, except space is limited for most of us and we
plant them really close together “temporarily.” Years later, the
survivors are a tangled mess, cheek-by-jowl, impossible to separate.
Yes, you've got me: I <i>am </i>speaking from personal experience.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaWW4S8epO7MY3hvZ_ZXK_Zl6Vw79fOjm-6gA-Tho7tXH5gyc7bE7yQhyphenhyphenH4w_LQy5ITgO9kfhP2Q9kqFTDecG9UVEMwvhY0z63a861hxU6N4gCUwZODuVEYxLeJYjJ-q86UTfhbeDlDs/s1600/Ajit+Thakur+2018-05-02+H+Potsscaled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVaWW4S8epO7MY3hvZ_ZXK_Zl6Vw79fOjm-6gA-Tho7tXH5gyc7bE7yQhyphenhyphenH4w_LQy5ITgO9kfhP2Q9kqFTDecG9UVEMwvhY0z63a861hxU6N4gCUwZODuVEYxLeJYjJ-q86UTfhbeDlDs/s400/Ajit+Thakur+2018-05-02+H+Potsscaled.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pots left in ground for years (not mine :) )</td></tr>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> I've seen gardens where the holes at the bottom of pots
aren't for drainage but are escape routes for roots. Plants in pots
can be decades old and the size of trees. My pots are often watered
by submerging them in buckets of water, never getting to develop
those huge root systems. Of course, one must remember to take them
<i>out</i> of the buckets. Hmmm … yes, you've got me again: I <i>am
</i>speaking from personal experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Still, each year my plan is to give away many more pots
than I take in and shrink the collection, easing the problems of
watering in the summer droughts. And each year, people whose gardens
I visit give me a bunch more. And I can't say, “No.” They are
gifts. Of course, the same works in reverse, but I never seem to make
progress toward my goal of having just a few to evaluate and care
for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I'm sure that when they carry me out the house
feet-first, a perfect plant will be waiting in vain for its master to
come, drop it out of its plastic prison and into happy decades of
life in a soft, moist bed, just outside the picture window. Will
there be a Rescue Plant organization, screeching to a halt, sirens
blasting, to save that doomed, perfect plant as I'm hauled away? I
would start that organization, but then I'd end up caring for other's
pots and there I'd be: watering even more and shrinking my collection
backwards.</span></div>
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Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-84284710495034403222018-06-19T22:13:00.000-04:002019-12-29T10:21:05.696-05:00Planning Ahead<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Planning Ahea</b></i></span></span></div>
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</span></span>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">d</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Nobody starts their gardening life with a plan, but if
they stick with the hobby then ideas come to them, unbidden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Casual planting comes from having a plant in hand and
putting it in a spot because the spot is empty.</span></div>
<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> <i><b>Planning</b></i> requires a little time and thought. Are you
going to put the plant in a bed dedicated to a single hybridizer? Or
one featuring only those created in you county? How about putting
together all of those that bloom at the same time? Or all of the red
ones in a separate bed? Or those that have white flowers with colored
borders, separate from the “selfs”, which are single color
flowers? Or all the short ones together? Or a mix with tall ones at
the back and short ones at the front? Have you tried having tall ones
in the middle, then medium sized in a circle around them, then short
ones around the border resembling a mountain?</span></div>
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<div align="LEFT" style="border: none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"> A decision might be made between getting primarily
those of a type, for example late blooming Satsukis, or enjoying a
wide mix of types. Those who collect a single type will smile as you
give them something else, but will be immediately thinking about
re-gifting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Which makes me think of the decision to be made when a
plant has to go. Maybe it is growing poorly, maybe you don't like the
flower, maybe there aren't enough flowers on the plant, maybe it
looks like a million others and is just taking up space. Should you
shred it? On the one hand it's nice to have a gift plant for a
visitor. Maybe they <i>will</i> like it. But, if you don't like the
plant should you give it to someone you also don't like? Alternately,
the compost pile awaits, its jaws almost audibly clicking. Is that a
little drool I see coming out of the side of the stack?</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Variations of texture and color make a nice shade bed, June 2018</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Decisions, decisions. But I think that it is better to
have decisions to make than to put plants in a space simply because
you are standing there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Visiting other gardens starts the inspiration
explosion! Should all the plants be in shiny, colored pots? Some in
the ground and some in pots? A mix of sun and shade suggests plants
that love one or the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> What are you going to enjoy in August when the azaleas
and daylilies are spent? Late daylilies like 'August Flame', some
Fall Aster (invasive!), Black-eyed Susan and Ligularia (in October)
give me something to look at when it is hot and dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Some people look for plants that still look good in the
dead of winter: their remaining foliage or branch structure giving
the frozen garden some character. Rohdea Japonica, arum and, of
course, hellebores.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crocus' in the snow, February 2007</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Will anything announce the spring while they (and you)
fight through the last snow? Winter Jasmine, snowdrops, and crocus'
<i><b>will</b></i> remind you that spring is coming and you'd better start planning
ahead!</span></div>
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Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-57708893221109990422018-05-19T21:15:00.000-04:002019-12-29T10:19:54.436-05:00Keep Your Friends Close<h2 align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Keep Your Friends Close</b></i></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> We're always making decisions in the garden: plant this
over by the fence or in front of the tree; put that by the patio or
in the glazed pot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Many years ago a philosopher named Danny Hillis
proposed making a clock which would run, almost maintenance-free, for
10,000 years. He called it the “Clock of the Long Now.” One of
his intentions was to develop long-term thinking in people, rather
than their normal focus on the next few minutes or, if you're in
finance, the next quarter. As I understand it, the clock is being
built though, in keeping with its concept, it will be a long time
before it is finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Have you thought about the difference between planting
for “now” and planting for “later”? I know several gardeners
who have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A couple of them have planted their azaleas far apart
with the idea that they will look great in 5 or 10 years. Neither of
them were pre-retirement when we talked and one said that he expected
to live to 100. The good news is the gardeners are still doing well,
as I write this, and the plants have indeed covered up a large
portion of the mulch around them. Congrats to them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> One of the above gardeners keeps his individual plants
in large, 55 gallon drums. These are too big to move and not too
close to each other, but the tops <i>have</i> started growing
together and, from a little distance, they look fine. An interesting
side note on those drums: they have drain holes on the <i>sides</i>
near the bottom. The roots of his oak trees will not grow up into the
drum and compete for resources.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This bed of early blooming azaleas, shown from May 4, 2018, demonstrates my idea that mulch should be used, but rarely seen.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I don't like to look at a bed and see a pile of mulch
with a few plants, whose lives are all promise. A bed of plants, with
maybe a little mulch showing through, is preferable. My view is that
I am planning for now <i>and </i>later. It's true that this requires
more work, but spread out over a period of years, it isn't really
stressful. Azaleas should be planted relatively close together, and
when they become closer than you wish, simply dig them up and move
them apart, or move them elsewhere, or eat them. Your choice. [You
know that's a joke, right? <i>Right</i>? Please don't name me in a
wrongful death suit.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Many azaleas look fine with their branches mixed
through their neighbors, so they don't have to be moved the instant a
branch touches the next plant. Azaleas, ferns, heucheras and hosta
are relatively shallow rooted and can be transplanted easily. It
takes occasional attention, but your garden can always be ready for
the show!</span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-41512882278808975362018-04-20T22:49:00.000-04:002019-12-29T10:19:20.506-05:00Opposites Attract?<h2 align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Opposites</span> Attract<span style="color: black;">?</span></b></i></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> If someone told me, when I woke up that morning, I'd be
watching an ad for a Chinese dance show over and over, and listening
intently to the Chicago song “25 or 6 to 4”, I'd have said,
“Yeah, could be. Why not?” I lead a quiet life, but it does get
strange sometimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> To clarify, I was walking through a nearby mall and a
kiosk was set up to run an ad for a Chinese dance/acrobat show,
showing short clips of people jumping, thrusting with swords and
throwing things in the air. Simultaneously, the mall muzak was
playing the above mentioned song, which I like. The weird thing was:
the phrasing and emphasis of the song were in <i>exact </i>sync with
the video. I watched the tape run at least three times and the timing was
precise. It was really neat to see, though the cultural basis of the
two items were as different as [insert your own simile here]… And,
yet they worked together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Married couples? Classic “opposites attract”. Not
always for always, but sometimes for always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> What could be more different than twisted hunks of
metal and soft, growing plants? I just saw a picture of a fine garden
in Delaware. A copper sculpture of a heron twisted elegantly upward
before a set of soft Japanese Maple leaves. They <i>do</i> go
together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Garden gnomes have been overdone, but a small statue of
a smiling frog, in the lotus position, was great in a shady garden on
a recent Azalea Convention tour.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Neckel Garden in 2015 demonstrates how plants and human constructions can go well together.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> On the counter-example side: we are so used to seeing
suburban houses that we don't think of them as piles of brick, wood,
aluminum siding and shingles. In the old days, my days, the metal
bars of TV antennas were the flag of the ugliness troops, but now
there are just some satellite dishes on the lookout, which don't look
quite as bad. And yet, we set out a small collection of trees and
bushes all around, then declare the constructed piles “attractive”.
Maybe, if the houses were made by Frank Lloyd Wright my sneers would
be misplaced. Everything else is just a rectangular pile with a
triangular pile on top.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The 'burbs are so much a part of our psychological
landscape we think the plants and construction mass are a happy pair.
<i><b>No</b></i>. Foundation plantings are just a desperate attempt to hide …
foundations. And, what is it about asphalt and asbestos covered
triangles perched above our houses that stir the heart's aesthetics?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Not all opposites attract. Most houses and their
plantings are thrown together by the fates, hoping to coexist for a
time, as cheek-by-jowl commuters on a Japanese subway. Anything a
gardener can do to ease the strain will lower the world's tension.
Maybe, raise plant societies to the Ambassadorial level??</span></div>
Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02073350468014652451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8432971295230954278.post-78354580348778220132018-03-23T09:56:00.002-04:002019-12-29T10:18:37.030-05:00Gardens You Might Miss on the Spring Tour - II<h2 align="CENTER" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Gardens You Might Miss on the Spring Tour – II</b></i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> While we enjoy visiting the gardens of friends, and may
go on organized tours, you must realize that you are missing out on
the wonders that that approach may skip. Continuing your education
on the surprising varieties of design, we start Part II with:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Politician's Garden</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> An Open House! Come and enjoy the chicken and hot dogs
on the grill. Beer and soft drinks in the coolers! And flowers all
around. She even remembers your name. And your children's names.
And the fact that you put in a hosta bed last year. How is it, by
the way? Oh, that's great! She's always smiling. Have you seen her
back lawn? A little ratty looking now but she has wonderful visions
of it for the future. Could you spare a donation for it? Would you
like her to have some more camellias on the left? Could you spare a
donation? Your vision could become hers, no matter what it does to
the garden, the neighborhood, the state ... Could you spare a
donation? My, you've lost some weight! Could you spare ...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Doctor's Garden</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> I know he told you to meet him in the driveway at 10:15
but he's running late. There's an emergency. A squirrel knocked
over a pot and has to be cleaned up (both the squirrel and the pot).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> At 10:35 one of his gardeners comes out to the driveway
and calls your name. “Yes,” you answer. But then you're pulled
off the side and must fill out a questionnaire. “Why did you come
today?” “Have you been here before?” “Is anything bothering
you about the garden?” “Do you have insurance? (The stepping
stones can be slippery).” “Which company?” The gardener takes
the completed form and goes around the back of the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> At 10:50 another gardener approaches and invites you
into the garden. But you have only 10 minutes. He says that that is
enough. Well, be sure to make an appointment to come back next year
and we'll do this all over again. Did the first gardener collect
your copay for seeing the grounds? No? That's OK, we'll bill you.
You'll hardly notice the processing fee.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Teacher's Garden</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Don't be late or you'll have to show her an excuse.
And who's signature is that? Is that your mother's handwriting?
Never mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Visitors must wear a badge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Flowers are all laid out in neat rows, alphabetically.
One droops but the teacher's stick raises it up. Aggressively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> At the end of the Spring, plants are given grades:
“Spectacular” means primed for success, “Average” – good
for filling in the gaps, “Shows Promise” – must try harder next
year, “Failure” – needs to be given away to people she doesn't
like, and, the lowest grade, “Compost Pile”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> A true, real life fact: the latter is a grade I lusted
after when I was teaching but could never get the school board to
approve. </span>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Appalachian Garden</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Ah, a garden with sculptures! Let's chain up the Pit
Bull then walk around. Over here's a Ford F150, up on blocks now but
someday it'll hit the road. That rust don't matter none. Sitting by
the front door is a cherry red Dodge Charger. There's some kind'a
bush crushed under it which was just in the way. Off on the left
side of the double-wide is a '65 Mercury. The vinyl roof is a little
ratty, but the moss growing on it sure looks nice. Ma loves
greenery. The ditch by the mailbox has daylilies and cattails,
lookin' might fine! The '55 Chevy next to them, with the multi-flora
rose coming up by the tail lights, might be gone one day. A guy in
town said he might be interested. Mighty interested. But, ya know,
the place wouldn't be the same without it...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Late-Night Huckster's Garden</i></span></b></div>
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