David Pilling´s ecosystem

Jane Sargent jane@deskhenge.com
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:54:25 PDT
As for David Pilling´s no-care ecosystem (and who among us would tell 
David Pilling how to garden,) lazy and untutored people like me plant 
things that have flourished in the neighbors´ gardens, such as bugbane, 
siberian iris, hemerocallis, hyacinthoides, peony, silene, narcissus, 
and then stand back and get out of the way. The problem with this method 
is that a pachypodium namaquensum (?sp) or a Brunschweigia is never 
going to pop up in the middle of it. Most of us want to grow the plants 
that enchant and intrigue us and not be limited to those from any 
natural ecosystem or neighborhood garden. This takes   some doing, and 
of course we want to hover and watch the results. Taken to an extreme, 
in Massachusetts this vigilance can amount to running a beautiful 
intensive care unit for plants on life support. I wish I had the time or 
the patience to do this. I´m just the wrong person.
Things are quite different in my southern Mexican garden, where the 
trick lies in keeping things from growing and the best gardening tool is 
the machete. The Megaskepasma erythrochlamis is ten feet tall.
Jane Sargent
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