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MAU
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:46 pm Posts: 216 Location: Madrid,SPAIN
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Life and gardens
Hello, Some time ago I think about what happens when the gardens and collections of plants that we maintain and care for a lifetime with work, effort and considerable amounts of money, and one day we die and everything is over. Where are all those wonderful plants that grew with all our love and are often exceptional for its rarity. Those of us who love our plants know that without our care all those collections of exceptional plants and small gardens will suffer almost disappearing and dying in less than a year. It makes me sad to think about it, all that beauty that will be lost and that only interests a few, in all that botanical heritage that many of us have in our gardens and patios that will disappear as "tears in the rain" when we are not in this world. For example, does anyone know what happened to Will Giles' garden? Although I am a person who enjoys life, do not think that I am depressed, sometimes I think about this topic, not only from my human point of view but from the point of view of the future of the species that we cultivate with passion.
What´s your opinion about this?
Regards
Mau
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:54 pm |
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Re: Life and gardens
I think we all put a lot of our personality into our gardens (some might say that is why mine is so spiky...) and so the space becomes a very different place when we no longer have that input.
With regard to Will's garden, I understand he bequeathed it to a friend who now lives and gardens there with plans to change it, not attempt to keep it as it was. An exotic garden, but not 'The Exotic Garden'. I went to see Will a couple of weeks before he died and all that year the garden had been planted and maintained by his friends - it was almost like seeing someone else's garden. Will's personal touches were just not there - maybe it was the particular way in which he grouped the plants, the particular combinations.
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:26 pm |
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garytheflounder
Joined: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:32 pm Posts: 241 Location: Brighton Sussex uk
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Re: Life and gardens
We've always joked about what will happen to my garden. Wife wants to concrete it all over.........with me underneath
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:29 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Life and gardens
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Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:13 pm |
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Re: Life and gardens
Eduard, I hope you mean that you are just getting a little older and not something more serious.
I've watched many gardens fall into the fate of losing their owners. It is never pretty, so one needs to plan for that if plants are to be rescued. I've seen entire bonsai collections being basically given away because the owner just couldn't care for them anymore. I in fact am going to be getting rid of many plants this year (or so goes the plan) because I can't keep up with caring for them properly, or I fear for their fate.
Not a pleasant topic to consider, but critical for anyone who has a sizeable collection.
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Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:10 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Life and gardens
Am already at age but still feel pretty young, that is not the point, the problem is that I get a huge high blood pressure during exertion [lifting] and they do not know how to solve this!
The doctor's advice, immediately stop my hobby! That is why I started selling the heaviest ones.
Eduard.
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Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:56 am |
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MAU
Joined: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:46 pm Posts: 216 Location: Madrid,SPAIN
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Re: Life and gardens
Hello, It is true that it is a somewhat uncomfortable post but it is real. My union with certain of my plants has a spiritual component, getting home after work or just being in my little garden while breakfast has a healing and meditative power that is almost religious. So it seems unfair that all of this is lost some day. In short, I have turned 50 years old and I am philosophical, nothing serious I suppose. Eduard take care!
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Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:36 pm |
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Stan
Joined: Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:52 pm Posts: 10687 Location: Hayward- S.F. Bay area Ca.
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Re: Life and gardens
One day I have to talk to the son in law about my plants- tell him the value and what to ask for on ebay. Even where to announce " Mama,Stan wont be needing these trowels any more,I cant use them anymore" ( Dylan) I actually keep to myself now,because when I have slipped and said $$$ for this plant,my wife says "Then sell it". I no longer do that.
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Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:20 am |
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Bennz
Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:06 am Posts: 675 Location: Waimarama NZ
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Re: Life and gardens
I'm beating the future by outplanting it. It's easy enough to remove a shrub or cut down a tree, but I've planted close to 300,000 trees which is kind of like a great challenge crossed with a one finger salute to anyone in the future who might want to return it to bare ground!
A more serious reply, our garden spaces suit or personalities, future personalities that inhabit what is now our space will express themselves in their own way. This is a good thing... and we can't change it even if we wanted to.
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Sun Jan 28, 2018 4:55 am |
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kindredspiritkevin
Joined: Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:02 pm Posts: 108 Location: Mid-West, Ireland.
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Re: Life and gardens
There's nothing really I can do about it when I'm changed into alternative carbon.
I realize my garden is a massive amount of work and to expect someone else to keep that up wouldn't be fair so I'm just not going to think about it unfortunately.
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Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:42 am |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Life and gardens
I have the feeling when we are no more our children will build another house over our garden then get to sell 2 instead of one.
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Mon Jan 29, 2018 10:44 pm |
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Adrian
Joined: Sun Feb 07, 2016 7:32 pm Posts: 185 Location: Folkestone Kent UK
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Re: Life and gardens
All so melancholy !................The most important seeds any of us gardeners sow are in the minds of people who see and like our gardens. I'd wager there are mini me gardens all over the place, people trying to emulate. Think of it that way and you're immortal.
Adrian (feeling particularly Zen)
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Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:48 am |
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davidmdzn7
Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:01 pm Posts: 412 Location: Maryland, USA
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:56 pm |
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Chad
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 10:03 pm Posts: 2343 Location: Inland Cornwall UK
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Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:16 pm |
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davidmdzn7
Joined: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:01 pm Posts: 412 Location: Maryland, USA
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Re: Life and gardens
LOL, I knew someone would catch that. Thought of substituting Pope, but it seemed more like Swiftian humor!
"Jonathan Swift was born on 30 November 1667 in Dublin, Ireland. He was the second child and only son of Jonathan Swift (1640–1667) and his wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick) of Frisby on the Wreake.[4] His father was a native of Goodrich, Herefordshire, but he accompanied his brothers to Ireland to seek their fortunes in law after their Royalist father's estate was brought to ruin during the English Civil War. "
I doubt that the locals working for his father thought of him as Irish! Willing himself to become Irish, might have, in fact, been the most genius satire of all and offers proof of the complex fungibility of identity and ethnicity in pre-republic Ireland...but I digress.
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Sat Feb 17, 2018 7:32 pm |
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