Re: [gardeners] Obsessions Portrait of a Maniac
....ed (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 18:31:56 -0500
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> From: ....ed <fourniered@nemaine.com>
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] Obsessions Portrait of a Maniac
> Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 12:07 PM
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> My obsessions, if i had any, would change like snacking on
cashews
> one week, popcorn and dill pickles the next. One year i wanted
> rocks for a back border of the main flower garden. The initial
> rocks came out of the ground as i started converting a pasture
> overgrown with sweet fern and burdock in hard heavy clay soil.
My
> obsessions in the garden, if i had any, would seem to start with
a
> good idea and the desire to get it done and of course there were
> not enough rocks to go the full length of the garden. As a
result
> i'm off to the nearest gravel pit sizing, lifting, and hauling
> rocks all summer until a wall a couple feet high is constructed.
>
> My obsessions in the garden, if i had any, would be akin to
being
> a perfectionist of sorts and not being analytical enough to get
it
> right the first time. Well, after the unusual dog days of record
> temperatures that year i had enough rocks but they didn't appear
> flat enough and it would have been much better (wouldn't it?) if
i
> had dug down into the ground a foot, lined the bottom with
> something to prevent weeds from eventually grow up between the
> rocks. So being a student of doing things over again, i did it
all
> over again. And it is true that it still, some ten years later,
> looks acceptable and hardly a weed grow there.
>
> My obsessions in the garden, if i had any, would be internally
> transmitted from one idea to another with only the winter left to
> arrest them from concept into action. With the wall done
wouldn't
> it be nice to lighten up this clay a bit so something within the
> rock border could actually grow? And after that it moves on and
on
> and on: wouldn't a vine look great there but to do that you need
to
> build something for the vine (hey, how about a couple of clematis
> there) to grow on? Yeah, that looks fine but wouldn't it balance
> out a bit to have a vine over there (maybe a Mandevillas if i
could
> find one) and on, a bit of sculpture here so bring out the
cement,
> how about casting a balloon-like piece kids might like , a larger
> rock there, there, and there and back to the gravel pit, hey,
from
> the road you see as much of the fence of the pasture as you do
the
> rocks, shouldn't there be a few trees or something, which now
years
> later need trimming and maybe some water (as in small pond) over
> there and any body of water should have plants and maybe a Lilly
> pad or two and fish, and another sculpture, something that moves
in
> the wind would be nice up there and on and on....
>
> My impressions of obsession, is that what you are asking
well,
> i don't think i have any obsessions, just good ideas that need
> doing and wouldn't a blue spruce be at home in that little spot
> next to the beginning of the driveway, hey i gotta go dig....ed
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