| | It's really very funny. (Note to Certain Persons - I did not say cute.) Alyssa cracks herself up, sometimes with the help of Julia and Jeanna, or Kent, or Mrs. Kizer, and after valiant efforts to maintain gravity, off she goes into the merriest gigglefit you ever saw. Two seconds of this, and Kent begins to snicker, and then he's laughing helplessly at Lyss. A minute more into the whole proceedings, and I start to laugh at the sight of those two - and there we are all laughing hilariously at - nothing? - or maybe at Jack Aulis and Plants Don't Do What You Tell 'Em, which gem of a gardening book Lyss found in a random Raleigh antique shop. Read aloud at midnight, it's impossibly funny.
When you pinch off the tip of a young plant branch, the remaining stem will
usually form even more branches, apparently to show you that you can't get away
with that.
Roses are probably the most popular flower in
the world if you're talking about the preferences of humans, black spot and
Japanese beetles.
Queen Anne's lace is an excellent
flower. But it is an even better weed. Weed experts say that if you want to grow
it the only real way to control it is to "prevent seed production." That's like
saying that the best way to control the first fall frost is to prevent the
temperature from falling.
The word sphagnum comes from the Greek word for moss, so when
you say "sphagnum moss" you are really saying "moss moss," but I never met
anybody who cared except me.
In the beginning, shrubs thought they were supposed to grow
into their natural shapes. Gardeners didn't agree, so they invented
pruning.
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