Native Plants
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Apr 16, 1999
You should also direct the growth of your trees and shrubs. You don't have to do this with pruning shears, you can control their growth by rubbing out buds before they elongate into branches. It is this delicate control over native plants which will make a garden of native plants a garden, a living poem about the environment that you garden in, rather than just a restored bit of wilderness.
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The main problem with editing my own garden is that I don't like to get rid of plants that aren't really contributing to the design. Also there is the collector's instinct. I am not as afflicted with ...
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Kirk,
"Better editing other peoples gardens than my own."Ain't it the truth! Why is it that some of us invest ourselves better in other peoples gardens than in our own? Or give good advise and no ...
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I am better at editing other people's gardens than I am my own :-)
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Kirk,I took your editing words to heart. "Of course Japanese gardens are among the most "edited" of all gardens. Every branch is carefully pruned and trained." My chainsaw was sharpened, oiled ...
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When I lived in Alaska I thought that the number of natural bonzai and the number of Japanese tourists would make for an interesting export: Alaskan bonzai. When I lived in California I had to drive ...
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