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October 15, 2006
Armchair Gardner...
My final getting-ready-for-winter project this weekend was to replace my gerbera daisys with pansies and snapdragons. About half way into my project I realized I had twice as many snapdragon plants and more than twice as many pansies as I could fit into three pots. I spent a couple minutes debating whether I should randomly leave the leftovers on doormats of other apartments or rip out the lifeless holly bush in the window box at the end of my patio. Finally I decided the pink snapdragons and white pansies would nicely complement the georgeous red mums which have managed to survive my care for nearly a year.
With the aid of a spoon from the kitchen I managed to liberate the holly bush whose roots had become intwined with the unsuspecting mums, leaving a crater in the middle of the window box big enough to accomodate 9 snapdragon plants. Any real gardner would be appalled at what I consider technique as I crammed the plants in anyway I could, but the goal here was just to get as much dirt under my fingernails as possible. I finished the job with 20 white pansies nestled around the snapdragons and mums.
I was quite proud of my work until I started cleaning up and read the plant tag. Those things can grow to three feet tall, I could have my own privacy fence by the time they mature. Who puts snapdragons in a window box anyway?
Posted by Anna at October 15, 2006 7:19 PM
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