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Article: Garden-Variety Obsessions
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 11, 1987
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There are so many young gardeners-new to gardening-nowadays that
I should say a word about obsessions that commonly strike the
gardener without reason and without warning. If one is prepared, one
copes better.
A thing that often happens is the gardener has been happy for
two or three years puttering about, planting an azalea here and a
tulip there, and thinking a good bit about hedges and fences and how
the garden should be developed when time and money permit. Fine.
Then without much warning this hypothetical (and all too real)
gardener stumbles into some plant that begins to obsess him, and
thereafter (the disease usually lasts three years, but sometimes more
in grave cases) has no ...