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 July / August 2005 |
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July / August 2005 |
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Gleanings from the Editor Mid-summer is a good time to observe — sit in a swing, hammock, air-conditioned parlor, or anyplace comfortable — and look around. Which plants are still alive even though the temperature is pegged at 99°? Which plants are demanding water at least twice each day? Don’t just look at your yard either. Drive around a look at the neighborhood. Finding nice looking plants that are surviving the summer is a worthy use of high-priced gasoline! Summer is also a good time to read gardening books. One of the advantages of books is that you aren’t limited to reading about natives of your area or well-adapted plants to your climate. You can read about anything. You can fantasize about English gardens with tumbling roses and perpetual mist. You can imagine being in the rainforest with exotic orchids hanging from the trees. Have you read Beverly Nichols’s books? He is the typical stereotypical English gardener, full of pretention and humor. His garden is nothing like mine, but I like reading about it anyway. He tells about the garden and all the funny people who visit his garden. He’s a sort of Noel Coward of the garden and lots of fun. And then there are the wonderful recipe books. I read them fantasizing about how any moment I might get up and make Lucinda Hutson’s “Festive Layered Salmon and Dilled Cheese Torta.” I probably won’t, but it’s fun to imagine and it sounds really good. I come from a long line of recipe-readers. When my favorite aunt died, there were more than 300 cook books on the shelves — each with at least one page corner turned down. So enjoy the hot weather — it’s a good excuse to relax and observe the rest of the world.
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