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Re: TH: Re: Bird-Tree-Digest: V97 #29
Post-To: Tree-House@Majordomo.Flora.Com (Community Forestry) ----------
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Thank you, Roberta!
As a future landscape architect, I hope to encourage the use of less toxic
garden spaces. It will take some time to convince the public that the neat
and tidy look is killing the planet in a hundred little ways. Perhaps like
the Hundred Monkeys syndrome, when enough of us have "imperfect" yards, it
will become the norm. :-) The images of Versailles and the English
Romantic gardens are hard to let go -- they've been the standard for SO
long!
Thank you for your post.
Mary Bedard
Landscape Architecture Program
University of California, Davis
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>I have control over only what happens on MY property. I get on my soap-box
>with some reasonably receptive people, for chemical-free gardening, for
>composting, for having bird and butterfly (and bat) -friendly space. But
>it can be difficult to sell the idea that the larval forms of butterflies
>will have made the buddleia leaves look pretty tattered by the time the
>blooms are out and the butterflies are swirling around the bush.
>
>Those who are in the business of applying toxins to the earth have a
>philosophy that nature must be controlled, and perfected to some peculiar
>standard. They are short-sighted, of course. But even if they
>acknowledge that, they may still look askance at my garden.
>
>I don't have an answer to your question. I know only that I work on the
>stewardship of my small piece of land very hard indeed.
>
> Roberta Rivett
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