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	obsidianwolf 2008-06-13 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	I sit here trying to figure out the mindset that leads to leaving such a note. Worryingly I think it's starting to make sense. Good thing I have no plans to put a pond in my own yard. (Reply to this)(Thread)

Note from the Gardening Underground

frequentmouse
2008-06-13 08:27 pm UTC (link)

Seriously, I know I'd do it for certain of my giant rose bushes- there is a strong sentiment among us horticulturalists that people who buy a property merely for the dwelling are, in a word, stupid. Those of us who think of a house as a place to store our specialty catalogues, fertilizer, and gardening tools find those who think of a garden as mere decor very wrong-headed.

Of course, there's the problem of Bad Gardens, and I include misplaced ponds and trees high on the list of things which it's fine, even wise, to get rid of, but pond people are... special.

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Re: Note from the Gardening Underground

hallidae
2008-06-13 08:45 pm UTC (link)

I wound up driving past my old house when I had to take a detour off I-40 on my way in from the east, and I admit, it disturbed me greatly to see all our blackberry bushes gone. Though it was mostly because I couldn't understand why anyone would go to all the effort to hack away the things that gave you food and let the rest of the acre grow over with weeds and high grass.

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	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground singe 2008-06-13 09:32 pm UTC (link)
	That would have killed me. hums TAPS for the lovely blackberries (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground hallidae 2008-06-13 09:34 pm UTC (link)
	We hated them in the winter, when we had to go pruning, but we could get ten or twelve pounds of berries easy from them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground singe 2008-06-13 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, yum! (Reply to this)(Parent)

Re: Note from the Gardening Underground

kaen
2008-06-13 11:21 pm UTC (link)

This reminds me of how depressed I was when I heard that the house I grew up on was for sell again, went online to check out pictures of it, and found out that they'd completely torn out everything in the backyard and just planted grass where it all used to be. We had a huge old-fashioned rose bush, two huge lilac bushes, a bunch of peony bushes, a long thing of Concord grape vines bordering on side of the backyard, a bunch of blackberry, raspberry, white raspberry, and boysenberry bushes, an apple tree, a pear tree, two peach trees, and big patches of strawberries, rhubarb, and asparagus. And my mother's gardens.

It broke the part of my heart that has always, deep down inside, wished that I could move back there someday and have it be exactly the same as it was when I was little, even though my rational mind knew that wasn't ever gonna happen.

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	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground shaysdays 2008-06-13 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	This isn't gardening, but when Our First House finally had to have the concrete driveway replaced, the new owners tried to save the little patch that had my 5yo footprints and name in it. :) Sadly, they couldn't get it out whole and entire. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground kaen 2008-06-14 12:00 am UTC (link)
	Aw, that was sweet of them even if it didn't work out as well as they'd hoped. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground shaysdays 2008-06-14 12:10 am UTC (link)
	What's funny is it had gone through about three owners at that point, and they all told the next buyers, "Hey, the girl with the footprints comes back every couple of years to say hi." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground insanityprelude 2008-06-14 03:25 am UTC (link)
	That's depressing and I'm not the one who lived there. D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground vzg 2008-06-14 04:16 am UTC (link)
	I used to miss my old home. Luckily, when the new inhabitants tore down the ivy and changed the yard, I realized I was an idiot for thinking that way. My old house was shitty. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground kaen 2008-06-14 04:43 am UTC (link)
	Really, at this point I most just wish that I had the water pressure and heating system there back. Especially the heat; it ran hot enough that the vents would burn the shit out of you if you touched them for more then a few seconds, laughing in the face of Michigan winters. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground vzg 2008-06-14 05:02 am UTC (link)
	I cackle at your Michigan winters! No more do I suffer that. Not that New York winters are too much better, but still. CACKLE. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground aerobot 2008-06-14 01:07 pm UTC (link)
	.... OH MY GOD. Why in god's name would you ruin such an awesome garden and then put in some dinky GRASS? Okay, this justifies some raging anger. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground kaen 2008-06-14 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, if they'd at least done some landscaping of their own, or had some livestock that needed the extra grazing land, or something I would have been a little less D: D: D: about it. And the part of me that really hates mowing doesn't know why anyone would really want more lawn when it had a decently sized one to begin with. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	I'm special! singe 2008-06-13 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously, I know I'd do it for certain of my giant rose bushes Yeah, I've taken up gardening lately and putting a vicious letter underneath my plain 'ol daisies sounds logical to me. I never imagined it's be such hard work! And, yes, now I'm thinking about a pond. Yikes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Note from the Gardening Underground insanityprelude 2008-06-13 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	I have a black thumb. I know if I could get anything to grow, I'd understand leaving something like that because... well, because I can't usually get anything to grow. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tangentialone 2008-06-13 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they'd sold the house to some people, really liked them and stayed on good terms with them and all that... and then those people had wanted to take the pond out (or just DONE it, since it looks like it was a single-day job). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	obsidianwolf 2008-06-13 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	I imagine it would have resulted in some awkward dinner conversation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-06-13 10:00 pm UTC (link)
	"So... I remember you telling us about how you put that pond in..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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