Comments on: Toons http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/toons/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Digital Flower http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/toons/comment-page-1/#comment-1318 Digital Flower Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:07:44 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/the-archives/toons/#comment-1318 It is a delicate balance between the native and exotic. I think a mix of both might be the ticket. Plants, like people, have spread across the world and will continue to do so no matter what we plant in our gardens. <em>I agree - it's the best of all worlds that way. -kris</em> It is a delicate balance between the native and exotic. I think a mix of both might be the ticket. Plants, like people, have spread across the world and will continue to do so no matter what we plant in our gardens.

I agree – it’s the best of all worlds that way. -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/toons/comment-page-1/#comment-1313 Susan Sims Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:56:11 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/the-archives/toons/#comment-1313 We've had more snow than normal this year and the birds are having a hard time of it. I was sliding along the road today and noticed a non-native hawthorn at the corner of an intersection. It was loaded with fruit, but there wasn't a bird to be seen. When I got home, I noticed a flock of sparrows, chickadees, and finches gorging themselves on my native juniper growing next to the drive. The juniper is rangy and I'm constantly fantasizing about tearing it out. Still, it goes to show sometimes the critters need the plants we don't want. Milkweed and monarch butterflies are a classic example. If only I had a few acres for a meadow, a grove of native trees, a sizable veg bed, a long border, a pond, terraces and a natural stream, a british accent...oh glorious pipe-dream! <em>Too funny, Susan! And that hawthorne is probably one of the things praised to the skies for winter interest because of its "persistent" berries... -kris</em> We’ve had more snow than normal this year and the birds are having a hard time of it. I was sliding along the road today and noticed a non-native hawthorn at the corner of an intersection. It was loaded with fruit, but there wasn’t a bird to be seen. When I got home, I noticed a flock of sparrows, chickadees, and finches gorging themselves on my native juniper growing next to the drive. The juniper is rangy and I’m constantly fantasizing about tearing it out. Still, it goes to show sometimes the critters need the plants we don’t want. Milkweed and monarch butterflies are a classic example.

If only I had a few acres for a meadow, a grove of native trees, a sizable veg bed, a long border, a pond, terraces and a natural stream, a british accent…oh glorious pipe-dream!

Too funny, Susan! And that hawthorne is probably one of the things praised to the skies for winter interest because of its “persistent” berries… -kris

]]> By: kate http://blog.blithewold.org/the-archives/toons/comment-page-1/#comment-1311 kate Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:47:42 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/the-archives/toons/#comment-1311 As with so many other things in life, we are seduced by the new and the shiny. In some ways, gardening is much like fashion. <em>Very true, Kate. And just like clogs, puffed sleeves and leg warmers, sometimes the old seems new again. -kris</em> As with so many other things in life, we are seduced by the new and the shiny. In some ways, gardening is much like fashion.

Very true, Kate. And just like clogs, puffed sleeves and leg warmers, sometimes the old seems new again. -kris

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