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Old 17-06-2007, 04:19 PM posted to rec.gardens
David E. Ross David E. Ross is offline
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Default Does anyone else think that garden gnomes are...

Flaming Tresses wrote:
..creepy? My daughter says she is scared of them!



Sometimes they can be quite funny.

I'm a docent at a foundation's garden. In the Mission Courtyard Garden,
there is a gnome under an orange tree. It's a smiling, fat friar
(unpainted concrete) with his hands raised out to the side palms up, as
if in prayer. When there are ripe oranges in the tree, one or both
hands are often holding fruit.

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