Janet Macunovich Quotes About Toxins
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The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
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Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!
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Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
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Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.
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You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
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Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
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Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.
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William J. Mitchell Architect