[pbs] plant regulation-Trivial-and OT
Adam Fikso
adam14113 at ameritech.net
Tue Jul 28 22:39:05 EDT 2009
Lest I've been misunderstood--I too have not been impressed by master
gardeners of any stripe. They've never been able to answer any of my
questions
I do consider them a possible resource though, and wanted to support
Tony's idea--gotta start somewhere -- in inaugurating a staged program for
noticing and alerting to invasiveness in either plants or their pests. But
maybe Boy Scouts would be better who were working for a merit badge would be
more eager and alert . . I remember that Bird Study was a really tough one
to attain.
..
----- Original Message -----
From: <totototo at telus.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] plant regulation-Trivial-and OT
> On 28 Jul 2009, at 15:18, Robert Pries wrote:
>
>> plant societies are appearing to be on the way out if you look at
>> membership.
>> If their members are not a bit more generous in welcoming the less
>> informed
>> they can soon be talking to the wall.
>
> The malaise is much more deeply rooted than that. We live in a society
> centered
> on immediate gratification and gardening is NOT that. It takes time and
> EFFORT
> and sticktoitiveness to learn the ins and outs of any one branch of
> horticulture, and that's precisely what the younger generation isn't
> willing to
> supply.
>
> Modern uninformed types want knowledge and expertise handed to them on a
> silver
> platter, want to be spoonfed what others only learned by paying close
> attention
> for decades, but that's not the way you learn to grow plants or arrange a
> garden. You learn those by getting your hands dirty, making lots of
> mistakes,
> and killing lots of plants in the process.
>
> Another element in the gradual decline of gardening societies is that
> gardening, as a hobby, has a great deal more competition these days than
> it did
> when we old fossils were first hatched from pterodactyl eggs. Why go out
> and
> spray the aphids when you can be self-actualizing in the nearest mall or
> big
> box store, or finding enlightenment at the foot of your latest guru?
>
> Even if they go hiking in the mountains, they pay next to no attention to
> the
> floral beauties they pass.
>
>
> The Master Gardener program has been mentioned in passing. Perhaps it's a
> heresy that will lead to me being burnt as part of an enormous
> horticultural
> auto da fe, but I think that program is a con, a fake, a scam. All it
> teaches
> is how to look something up in books! Those who emerge from the progam
> tend to
> think "now I know everything" when in fact they should emerge with a sense
> of
> how little they know.
>
>
> Harumph! Young whipper-snappers!
>
>
> --
> Rodger Whitlock
> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
> Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate
> on beautiful Vancouver Island
>
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