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Five Sacred Rules for Buying Plants

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BECKY	2012-02-04 10:58 AM
You started out great. It aged well. It's still completely relevant. (Paragraph 2 in #2 brilliantly sums up many crimes against horticulture. I couldn't help but smile.) You're more than welcome to dig up old stuff if it is as useful and delightful as this.
LOURAY	2012-02-04 02:32 PM
Nice basic rules. We're adding a few principles now that we are living "out in the wildlife" - - what will our garden attract, feed and/or protect? We have our expected bees, butterflies, hummers and assorted other birds, but there are also quail, a couple of kinds of squirrel, bunnies, coyotes (fenced out, we hope), deer (ditto), owls, and three more months before we have a whole year's observation done. It makes for a lot of research.
COMMENT 254114P	2012-02-05 09:55 AM
LouRay, not to mention fire retardant qualities, out there.
FLICKA	2012-02-05 10:52 AM
LOURAY, Good luck on fencing out deer and coyotes. I've never lived where they're a problem; friends have shared their troubles, nearly impossible. Hope you find a solution!
RAINE5360	2012-02-05 11:32 AM
Thanks. I made sure to read this because I am terrible at landscaping and was looking for some hope. I've killed two birch trees and lost a stone pine and a magnolia. The lawns I've had have looked like cr-p for the last 35 years. Houseplants? For some reason I can do those. But I have cats and don't keep them anymore (the plants, not the cats). So my horticultural errors are all on display for the world to see, right in my front yard. Unfortunately, I've read the plant labels and tried to visualize, watered, fertilized, but it all still looks terrible. There are some people who should just brick over the front yard.
LOURAY	2012-02-05 02:08 PM
114P: Fire always has to be a consideration, of course. We've heard some dire predictions about the price of our next fire policy. The more rural areas nearby are about to be hit by a fire-protection fee/tax and there has been much uproar about it. FLICKA: So far the coyotes seem to be interested primarily in our neighbors' windfall apples (do they get drunk the way birds and deer do? Might explain the coyote-oke we hear so many evenings!) and have dug under the alleged fence after reaching through it proved unsatisfactory. Deer enjoy the unfenced part of that yard and also wander into the yard on the other side when the kids leave the gate open. Those two yards nearly meet in a V which leaves a gate-width opening for the end of our lot. We seem to be lucking out via a combo of plain (plane!) geometry and sheer distraction factors. I haven't mentioned Big Kitties yet, though we're on a riverside green belt and allegedly have those as well as bears. No direct sightings yet of the humdrum possum-skunk-raccoon variety but we put no pet food outside, which helps no matter where one lives.

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