Comments on: Virtual Horticulture Revisited http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/ Heronswood Voice – A web log written by George Ball Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:50:49 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-14158 George Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:30:20 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-14158 Dear Anne – Lovely Alabama—what a wonderful state. Isn't it so that one position in a yard can differ so much from another? Thanks very much. Dear Anne – Lovely Alabama—what a wonderful state. Isn’t it so that one position in a yard can differ so much from another? Thanks very much.

]]> By: Anne Johnson http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-13118 Anne Johnson Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:29:25 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-13118 Amen! This horticulturist gardens on 3/4 of an acre in Birmingham, AL and my front yard is a direct opposite of my back yard - flood plain vs. foothills - the front being 2 weeks behind the back! Quite a diversity! Amen! This horticulturist gardens on 3/4 of an acre in Birmingham, AL and my front yard is a direct opposite of my back yard – flood plain vs. foothills – the front being 2 weeks behind the back! Quite a diversity!

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-14157 George Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:06:07 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-14157 Dear Kiersten – You win most perceptive post of the year. Thanks. (Do you write a blog? You should…) Dear Kiersten – You win most perceptive post of the year. Thanks. (Do you write a blog? You should…)

]]> By: Kiersten http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-12885 Kiersten Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:05:13 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-12885 Dear George, I always do enjoy your musings from another world (I spend the majority of my days in an office near Wash DC, light years away from your bucolic site in Doylestown). Something about this posting was particularly appealing. I think you managed to get all universal on us - striking common chords within many of us regarding what it is to "be local" - while simultaneously critiquing the urge towards imposed universality. Lovely! ;) K. Dear George,

I always do enjoy your musings from another world (I spend the majority of my days in an office near Wash DC, light years away from your bucolic site in Doylestown).

Something about this posting was particularly appealing. I think you managed to get all universal on us – striking common chords within many of us regarding what it is to “be local” – while simultaneously critiquing the urge towards imposed universality.

Lovely! ;)

K.

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-14156 George Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:48:59 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-14156 Dear Steve – Thank you for what is perhaps the most interesting post of the year so far. Absolutely wonderful! Please post again. Dear Steve – Thank you for what is perhaps the most interesting post of the year so far. Absolutely wonderful! Please post again.

]]> By: Steve McNew http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-12875 Steve McNew Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:47:39 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-12875 The localism piece is interesting - as are our efforts to bring other places to where we are now, as in trying to start blueberries in another state and soil, if not climate... We also tend to cross bounds of time. I still keep raising red four o' clocks, distant descendents of the ones in my great grandmother's dooryard, from when she was a child in the 1860s; the story is passed down of her telling later children of her having heard the cannon on Grant's gunboats, as he left Cairo Ill., to move on Forts Henry and Donelson, in early 1862. We joke that the plants bloom on pre-daylight saving, Central time. The localism piece is interesting – as are our efforts to bring other places to where we are now, as in trying to start blueberries in another state and soil, if not climate… We also tend to cross bounds of time. I still keep raising red four o’ clocks, distant descendents of the ones in my great grandmother’s dooryard, from when she was a child in the 1860s; the story is passed down of her telling later children of her having heard the cannon on Grant’s gunboats, as he left Cairo Ill., to move on Forts Henry and Donelson, in early 1862. We joke that the plants bloom on pre-daylight saving, Central time.

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-14155 George Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:45:52 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-14155 Dear Elaine – It wasn't an NPR reporter. I mentioned NPR only because neither China nor India could ever have a "national radio"—too many languages! Thanks. Dear Elaine – It wasn’t an NPR reporter. I mentioned NPR only because neither China nor India could ever have a “national radio”—too many languages! Thanks.

]]> By: Elaine http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-12790 Elaine Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:44:28 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-12790 They always seem to ask you the wrong questions on NPR in your view, don't they? They always seem to ask you the wrong questions on
NPR in your view, don’t they?

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-14154 George Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:33:45 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-14154 Dear Lisa – Compare outdoors to indoors, just as an exercise. Cuts and pot plants are easy to breed compared to garden plants—the zone is always "dry indoor room temperature". I'll be giving a speech April 3 and 4 at Fordhook about this and other subjects. Thanks, Lisa. Dear Lisa – Compare outdoors to indoors, just as an exercise. Cuts and pot plants are easy to breed compared to garden plants—the zone is always “dry indoor room temperature”. I’ll be giving a speech April 3 and 4 at Fordhook about this and other subjects. Thanks, Lisa.

]]> By: Lisa Colburn http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/virtual-horticulture-revisited/#comment-12788 Lisa Colburn Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:32:11 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=539#comment-12788 How true it is that the gardener is the fifth universal element in the garden. And yes, we are as variable as the air, water, light and soil. No two gardeners are alike as can be seen by their creations. How true it is that the gardener is the fifth universal element in the garden. And yes, we are as variable as the air, water, light and soil. No two gardeners are alike as can be seen by their creations.

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