Bob Hillis back and overwhelm by neural impulse .
Problem No . 1 was I depart my reading glasses in the motorcar . Problem No . 2 was I was out scrounge box - shop garden midpoint in frosty December for whatever was left . trouble No.3 was that in having approach eight full ten of biography I have take a solemn vow to never again go home saying to myself , “ Damn , I should have buy that . ”
That does run somewhat counter to Problem No . 4 – ridding the jumble in previous age make by pulsing - buying in an already crowd life – but that should never enforce to plants .
A day’s haul. Dwarf Alberta spruces flank a ‘Goldy’ arborvitae and an Italian Stone pine.
Never .
Why originate now ?
A day ’s haul . Dwarf Alberta spruce up flank a ‘ Goldy ’ arborvitae and an Italian Stone pine .
A day’s haul. Dwarf Alberta spruces flank a ‘Goldy’ arborvitae and an Italian Stone pine.
So , my flora trip finds included a couple of “ Goldy ” arborvitaes , three amaryllis , two dwarf Alberta spruces and there , right smart down low on the floor , was this tiny , interesting expect conifer wrapped in Christmas Glitz with an ornament in its foliage .
The Old Christmas Glitzy Yuletide Sales Pitch .
The printing process on the plant shred was too small to read – see Problem No . 1 – but who cares – see Problems No . 3 and No . 4 .
Shopping without eyeglasses leads to Zone 8 envy in Zone 6 Southern Indiana.
So , done in by Christmas Glitz , an ornamentation and its possibilities , the alleged plant expert haul home a tiny coniferous tree in a tiny commode for Christmas .
Part of me is thinking it could be fun to have around . Part of me is wonder what the hell is this affair ? Part of me really did n’t care ; I was n’t going home without it .
nursing home it comes . Off comes the tiny tag . On go the reading glasses . Here , way right smart down at the bottom of the rag in teeny lilliputian print come the truth .
If you can’t grow an Italian stone pine, you can always buy a good Chianti Classico. San Gimignano, Tuscany.
It ’s an Italian stone pine(Pinus pinea).Native from the Mediterranean to Syria and Lebanon and a democratic landscape painting tree in Southern California . detest red-hot humid weather condition . Does n’t like temperature below 20 degrees . Can grow two foot a yr to 80 metrical foot . vast .
Shopping without eyeglasses leads to Zone 8 enviousness in Zone 6 Southern Indiana .
In numerical footing a zone 8 plant being sold as a Christmas gift in zona 6 in a very small glitzed - up pot in the Ohio River Valley .
Ho . Ho . Ho .
I am thinking this is just retail wrong . Some little kid taking it home with dreams and wishes of planting it out of doors only to see it dead by August . possibly July .
There goes any hope of this kid becoming a nature lover or an tree surgeon . God help oneself us , now he may become a lawyer . An angry young man . Sue the bastards trade the incorrect trees in the incorrect place .
If you ca n’t grow an Italian stone pine , you could always bribe a good Chianti Classico . San Gimignano , Tuscany .
At Christmas !
I am also retrieve of some big kid who should have taken his recital drinking glass inside on a loge - fund plant - hunting tripper in December .
And that he would probably do it again .
Former Louisville Courier - Journal editorialist Bob Hill wrote more than 4,000 column and characteristic news report , about ten book of account and several angry letter of the alphabet to charge aggregator in his 33 years at the paper . He and his wife , Janet , are former guides and caretakers of Hidden Hill Nursery and Garden in Utica , IN . , a home - made , eight - Accho botanical garden , prowess mecca and source of enormous fun , whimsy , rarified plants and peace for all who depict up . Bob ’s academic honors admit being the tallest kid in his course of study 12 years in a row .
