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The garden is a charming place,
With plants and flowers fair,
But not just people treasure it,
There s critters everywhere.
The sluggies who come out at night,
The sluggies, they are here,
But soon I ll end their little schemes
And drown their heads in beer.
The spider mites are pesky things
As every gard ner knows,
But I have a surprise for them:
I ll blast them with the hose.
The aphids come and go at will,
Destroying them s a chore,
But mostly, they ignore my plants;
The weeds will suffer more.
The moles that plow beneath my grass
Don t really bother me.
Though pesky, they don t kill my plants
And so I let them be.
The mice will sometimes eat my seeds
But I can trap them all
And once, I drowned a giant rat
Who in my pond did fall.
The deer, they may attack my plants
And scrape their bark so bare
And though I d like to shoot them all,
By God, they re everywhere!
And so, the garden struggles on,
An endless fight it seems,
And yet, whene er the day is done
It s still a place of dreams.
....specializing in Eucalyptus, Grevillea, terrestrial bromeliads, anything else from the Southern Hemisphere that has a shot at being hardy (and some things that don t), Agaves, Yuccas and related plants (hey that should be a book), hardy cacti, bamboos, tree ferns, interesting western native plants, and a little of this and a little of that. Especially that.
I live in: United States
My zone is: Sequim
My favorite forum 1 is Northwestern Gardening.
My favorite forum 2 is Australian Native Plants.
First registered on December 07,2001.