"John Morgan" wrote in
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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.

That is loose talk. {:-((

Where in *nature* would you expect to find plants from Africa, The
Americas, Asia and Europe juxtaposed in the same patch of ground?
Where in nature would you expect to find campanulas or geraniums
thriving in the absence of an unselected environment of weedy plants?

[snip]

Franz