[lit-ideas] Re: flowers
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:45:00 -0400
Helen, the pictures of the flowers are truly stunning. They are Home & Garden
Channel quality. They remind me of some of the pictures I've seen of Vita
Sackville West's gardens. Poetry in flowers. Thank you for posting them, and
for the kind words about the music. After a prolonged period of being on the
receiving end of nasty posts, it was really nice to see. Please accept my
wishes for your mom's speedy recovery so she can go back to tending this
spectacular garden.
Irene a/k/a Rita Sackville West, Vita's untalented long lost evil twin
----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Wishart
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 7/17/2006 12:46:24 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: flowers
If anyone is interested I learned how to up-load photos. After my father died
17 years ago, my mom went on a trip to Israel, Greece and Egypt with a group
of older people. She fell in love with the huge brugsmania shrubs that she saw
in Israel and was happy to find them in a greenhouse in Canada some years
later. She now has at least a dozen and threatens those that don?t bloom
promptly that she will leave them outside. She hauls them into her basement
along with all the other frost- tender plants and nurses them through the
winter, breaking off slips and rooting them She doesn?t believe in wasting
money buying plants. Every spring her garden explodes with color, changing
throughout the summer as new plants come into bloom. And every year it is
different. The sad fact is that when she?s gone, her garden will gradually
disappear. Who has the time to baby two hundred plus rose bushes and chuck all
those blooms under the chin every day?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wishartha/
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