Re: [gardeners]Sunday in the garden
lneuru (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 22 May 2000 15:20:53 -0400
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> From: margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: [gardeners]Sunday in the garden
> Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 11:12 AM
>
> Penny, Hire a guy from an escort service to lift and plant. Would he be
> surprised! Might even be cheaper than hiring a yard man. Margaret L
lift and plant WHAT, Margaret??!!
I don't know if it would be cheaper.
Lucinda
>
> >
> >While my hubby, Jim, was out at a computer meeting today, I
> >popped into the car and returned to the nursery where I had
> >bought all those other bushes last Thursday (which still are
> >sitting in the yard enjoying the non-stop drizzle.....).. I KNEW
> >I would never be able to lift up the particular rhodie which I
> >had my heart set on (Consolini "windmill", cherry red and
> >white large flower tresses) so I commandeered a yard boy
> >to come and fetch it. Of course, he simply lifted it up and
> >stuck it on his shoulder -- and was I jealous! Then I did a
> >very naughty thing: I broke a promise to myself that I would
> >never again buy another rhodie 'purple gem' (looks like a
> >blue-flowered azalea) because they are the devil to keep
> >alive... but the price was right, and besides, buy 3, get one
> >free was too much to resist.
> >
> >So after a terrible struggle to get the big rhodie into the car,
> >I took off for home. Now, if you've ever seen a funny scene
> >before, this one took the cake. What that strong boy could
> >hardly get into the car, little old lady me was determined to get
> >OUT of the car, and before Jimmie could spot me.... How many
> >blossoms did HE knock off..? And how many more did I...? Dunno..
> >However, with a will of iron and the brain of an imbecile, I really
> >did finally get that huge bush out and down, and then over a foot
> >to the curb, and finally, up into the empty flower bed...Whew...!!
> >I cannot actually lift it up off the ground, but I can rock the
> >container, and sashay it over to where I want it. I do have a
> >wonderful hand truck which will help me get it over to the proper
> >site, but the clincher is going to be getting that tub off the bottom,
> >and then actually placing it in its hole. I actually got the mailman
> >to help me once, and the garbage man another time, and I even
> >got a neighbor's gardener to carry a big hollowed-out rock out
> >of the car and down to the back wall for me -- but who's left..?
> >Somehow I cannot picture the United Parcel delivery man
> >helping me plant a rhodie . . . . We'll see...
> >
> >Penny, NY
> >
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