Comments on: Failure in the tulip garden http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/ this is not blogging; this is typing Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Reveal yourself flower fairy! at Gifted Typist http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-508 Reveal yourself flower fairy! at Gifted Typist Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:57:41 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-508 [...] So I’m outside tonight admiring the Blue Moon tonight, when something strange catches my eye. It’s in the garden. It’s, it’s flowers! A profusion of them them. In MY garden. [...] […] So I’m outside tonight admiring the Blue Moon tonight, when something strange catches my eye. It’s in the garden. It’s, it’s flowers! A profusion of them them. In MY garden. […]

]]> By: YAM http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-484 YAM Wed, 30 May 2007 17:15:08 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-484 Sort of I suppose, but can't sing like Sissy S. Let me know if the deer like nibbling on the wooden variety, I can't grow a tulip here in M.L. without it looking like a POW camp. Sort of I suppose, but can’t sing like Sissy S.

Let me know if the deer like nibbling on the wooden variety, I can’t grow a tulip here in M.L. without it looking like a POW camp.

]]> By: gifted typist http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-481 gifted typist Wed, 30 May 2007 13:53:42 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-481 Perfect. Wooden tulips. I should have thought of that. I can't believe I didn't consult YAM on my tulilp woes, being a Dutch Farmer's daughter. Is that like a coal miner's daughter? Perfect. Wooden tulips. I should have thought of that. I can’t believe I didn’t consult YAM on my tulilp woes, being a Dutch Farmer’s daughter. Is that like a coal miner’s daughter?

]]> By: YAM http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-476 YAM Tue, 29 May 2007 22:21:20 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-476 Do you have deer in your neighbourhood? Make sure you pick perennials that aren't deer suppers. I suggest you don't buy your perennials -- beg, borrow and steal them from friends and others who are dividing them. Hate to disagree Dick since you're the resident forestry expert, etc. and you're from gardening heaven BC, and you're the BIL, (I am, however, the dutch farmer's daughter.....) I think GT you will have to weed the first couple of years, and you should get a couple of loads of well rotted manure to work into the soil. That'll get the neighbours talking. Another suggestion -- buy those wooden tole-painted fake tulips, etc. but buy a lot of them. If you're far enough away and you squint a little bit it actually looks real! Do you have deer in your neighbourhood? Make sure you pick perennials that aren’t deer suppers. I suggest you don’t buy your perennials — beg, borrow and steal them from friends and others who are dividing them.

Hate to disagree Dick since you’re the resident forestry expert, etc. and you’re from gardening heaven BC, and you’re the BIL, (I am, however, the dutch farmer’s daughter…..) I think GT you will have to weed the first couple of years, and you should get a couple of loads of well rotted manure to work into the soil. That’ll get the neighbours talking.

Another suggestion — buy those wooden tole-painted fake tulips, etc. but buy a lot of them. If you’re far enough away and you squint a little bit it actually looks real!

]]> By: Dick http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-472 Dick Tue, 29 May 2007 18:53:18 +0000 http://www.giftedtypist.com/2007/05/28/failure-in-the-tulip-garden/#comment-472 You need a low maintenance hardy perennial garden. Take a walk around the neighborhood, identify those gardens that look the least tended, identify the nicest looking perennials in the unkept gardens and get some. You will be able to take great pride in your low maintenance and attractive patch. You don't have to weed because you have attractive weeds occupying the site. You won't have to water or fertilize or insecticide. Now instead of wasting your energy coveting the neighbors labour intensive, short lived, boring, water consumptive, chemically enhanced, insecticided, over represented tulip patch, you can make fun of them and their lack of imagination and environmental consciousness...peasants! You need a low maintenance hardy perennial garden. Take a walk around the neighborhood, identify those gardens that look the least tended, identify the nicest looking perennials in the unkept gardens and get some.

You will be able to take great pride in your low maintenance and attractive patch. You don’t have to weed because you have attractive weeds occupying the site. You won’t have to water or fertilize or insecticide.

Now instead of wasting your energy coveting the neighbors labour intensive, short lived, boring, water consumptive, chemically enhanced, insecticided, over represented tulip patch, you can make fun of them and their lack of imagination and environmental consciousness…peasants!

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