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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 2/1/07, Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com> wrote:

> When I lived in California I had a big collection of succulents.  Now, I
> feel that there's little time left in which to gather all the most
> useful plants and evaluate their potential for growing here.

When I moved here from Chicago, I had a large collection of African
violets (and a lot of other house plants). They all disappeared, well,
died of neglect, as I got busy with homestead stuff. OTOH, I love
having flowers outside, and most years, I have really nice ones. My
mother and grandmother grew (and in Mom's case continue to grow) a lot
of their own food, and their flowers were and continue to be gorgeous.

> Homesteading, for me, is not primarily about making plants happy, but
> us.   When our retirement income falls short of what we were hoping for,
> I won't care about daisies much.  We already live in such a naturally
> pretty place.

Hey, if you don't make the plants happy they won't feed you.
Everything Mom touches, grows. Plants like her.

Good for you for picking a pretty place to live.

Marie, in frozen Illinois and having survived the first day of
whatever the virus is that's going around <cough, cough, hack, hack>