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My Books
Rosa Rugosa
With forward by Henry Mitchell - describes 200 varieties,
90 pages, 51 color photos -
soft bound. $ 23.00
Titus Tidewater
My children's book (both written & illustrated) is in print again - on going for 36 years now! Titus in a nice spiffy, updated edition. Oh yes, by the way, Titus is a Maine lobster. $15.95
...and I'll gladly sign my 'Suzy Verrier' upon request
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Changes, fads, styles or whathaveyou, are ultimately good and very much inevitable. Gardening, the great glitzy recent # 1 american pastime, is slipping the slippery slope. We don't hear much about this unless we're given to gloating over graphs, in the industry, or just plain cognizant.
After all getting out there, becoming dirty and bug-bitten, spending untold sums on purchases that are often at odds with one's wishes, being made painfully aware of parts of our anatomy, and then of course situations such as the intense competition innate in this pastime - are bound to take their toll. And, I do believe that whatever the great american selling machine gloms onto is more quickly directed to doom and a sort of unhealthy metamorphosis into the great global pablum.
Something as noble and as individual as gardening is a square peg in a round hole and much better off stepping to the sidelines and going its own sweet way.
It will be so fine to have our passion to ourselves again. We won't have to tolerate placards of fanciful faces directing us to purchase what everybody on the 'block' will grow. Perhaps even growers
will work with higher ideals and not with $'s in their eyes and such out of fashion paths as simple beauty, aspirations to classic garden plants destined to stand the tests of time, usefulness and the notion to snatch the hearts of generations of gardeners, might become the norm once again. ( I do wonder how many recent industry concocted introductions will or could acquire any of the afore mentioned qualities.) Perhaps and hopefully the noble art of nurserypeople will be unfettered and unleashed by the shrinking of mass marketing of our beloved passion?
Yes, gardening has forever been prone to fads, some more than bizarre and self defeating, but most within the boundaries of its own devotees and clan. Only when the great selling machine became involved did we sacrifice much of our integrity and the brother/sisterhood of dirty knees.
As a retailer for over 25 years and consultant to some 'pretty big' companies, I've been around the block a few times. There has for me, been a sweet peace in observing the glitz recede and perceive the taking back of my and manys' deep seated passion for gardening. The lovely enjoyment of the company of sage gardeners and their generous wisdom - the fresh breeze of those truly motivated and inspired new gardeners ready and willing to listen - and all those sincere souls in between - those of us who care to garden for the indescribable pure joy it bestows on us.