On 4/18/2009 5:00 PM, Phisherman wrote [in part]:

Anyway,
painting a trunk, good or bad, is a crime against nature.

Ah, but many of the plants in my garden -- including trees -- do not
exist in nature. They either represent centuries of selective breeding
or else more recent hybridization.

If I allowed my garden to return to nature, most of the plants there
would die from the lack of artificial irrigation. 200-250 days without
rain followed by a short rainy season that brings 9-15 inches would be
too dry to grow peaches, oranges, lemons, roses, camellias, guavas,
begonias, azaleas, holly, etc. A few of my plants might survive: oak,
rosemary, cistus, baccharis.

I grow unnatural plants. Why not use unnatural methods?

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