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15-07-2003, 05:02 PM

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On 14 Jul 2003 23:55:06 GMT, ospam (Roseb441702)
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I was at my local Franks store because I wanted some tomato plants. I must
have been there after the good ones were taken but I was determined not to
leave without one! I got one that was so thin and small but I bought it and
took it home to plant it in the ground. My mother (she grew up on a
farm) made
such fun of me but it did get healthier and produced some tomatoes.

I do it all the time.

Just "rescued" two handsome plants from the alley. Neighbor
who moved had dumped a lot of stuff. Had to pick one plant out of the
trash can.

I got three swordferns from a lumber-company-owned clear-cut where all the
remaining substory plants were suffering & dying wondering where the
forest went. Puny dried out swordferns are now flourishing giants.

I don't know if it qualifies as "saving" plants but I have often bought
pots of things that looked entirely dead, since I was pretty sure they
weren't dead, & one of my favorite nurseries regularly moves things to the
70% off back lot merely because some leaves turned brown. There are many
sorts of somewhat rare shade plants nurseries don't like to stock because
their bloom times are short, or they wilt away in summer, or they get
lanky fast if left in pots -- leaving the nursery too brief a window for
them to be easily salable. My very first cyclamen was given to me by a
nurseryman for free since he was otherwise going to discard what looked
like mere pots of dirt. That pot of dirt transformed me into a hardcore
cyclamen fan for life.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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