"Demanding Divas," eh? I bet she does get some "push back" on some of those ideas.
It probably helps that plants aren't
telling us what shining goddesses they are but we are making those decisions ourselves. In the notes it says that the author is primarily interested in edible landscapes. That makes sense, probably why she included sunchokes, and about where i am also (altho i like the flavor of sunchokes
). I also take more pleasure from a cottage garden than anything more formal altho some "Japanese gardens" are so
understated that they are really calming places to be. By "cottage" I suppose that I'm saying "anything goes"
.
Roses? As someone who worked for years in a commercial greenhouse growing roses for flower shops, I have an idea of what care they need. My answer would be – not much. Good gravy, we had thousands upon thousands of plants. But having that experience, I can also say that I don't live in southern China. That's where hybrid teas are from.
What are you gonna do with roses if you don't live in southern China or have an acre of glass structures to put them in? Well, you are gonna do the best you can ... I should point out that I live somewhere that wild roses have lived with no attention from humans for thousands of years. Lots of places have wild roses but if you want something else then you better be making the right choices.
A diva is a diety, or was at one time in her Mediterranean homeland
. Okay, if you have a Mediterranean climate and soil, maybe you should be looking to Mt Olympus for inspiration and choices
.
Funny how if you are around long enough, you see trends in landscaping. Right now, I'm seeing considerable neglect if that can be called a trend ... anyway, not all that long ago, azaleas
sprung up just about everywhere. I thought of them as something of a second choice to rhododendrons. Shucks, if I lived back on the coast in northern California where rhododendrons grow wild with the dogwood and redwood trees, I would be delighted to have some in the yard. Otherwise, I see how people here have to push them into very protected places. Well, they are not very suitable elsewhere. BTW, I doubt if I am seeing 10% of the azalea numbers that were around here 20 years ago.
Steve,
adieu (god be with you, goodbye)
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Still, THEY are Healthy leaves. I think that I should have let the Fall leaves die back. I cut them back, hoping to revive it and get flowers in the winter. Certainly the inTention of the grower who glued it to a board last year was to Let it die after Christmas 2023 and have me buy a new one.
