Nick Maclaren wrote in message
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In article ,
"Franz Heymann" writes:

| The truth is that you cannot garden at all without
creating a totally
| artificial ecology.

No, that is false, on many grounds.

almost all gardening does not create a TOTALLY artificial
ecology, but a slightly perturbed one - a.k.a. "living
with nature".

Well said, Nick. A major aspect of gardens, apart from
vegetable plots, is to bring nature close to our door. The
more natural looking the garden, the more it gets admired.
Check out the number of visitors to the major show gardens,
though some people seem to prefer formal types. If you don't
like this idea of what a garden does, pave the whole lot and
join another newsgroup :-(

Cheers,

John