the respective "territorial ambitions" LMAO!!! That's GOLD! Thank you for sharing your experience by a well written story,Salut from GERMANY - I understood the very meaning, on the spot.☼•.¸¸.•*☆ *•.¸¸.•*`*•.¸.*✿*★¸.•*´¨`*•.¸.☆.¸.•*´¨`*•.¸.★.¸.•*´¨`*•.¸.☆.¸.•*´¨`*•.¸.★.¸.•*´¨`*•.¸.☆.¸.•*´¨`*•.¸ > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:44:47 -0400 > From: jgglatt@gmail.com > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: [pbs] But My Sister Said > > A number of years ago I was speaking at Ness Botanic Gardens. The > director told me this story. > > He watched as an older woman was going around pulling up a little plant > here, another small plant there, and apparently having a grand time. > > He walked over and asked to see in her purse. When she opened it up and > he saw all the plants crammed in there he began a restrained lecture > about how if people took plants like this there would soon be nothing > for anyone to enjoy. > > Whereupon the woman looked at him and said "But my sister told me the > gardens are free." > > Umm, yes, perhaps she meant the admission, madam. > > Of course there is also the time I saw someone very furtively digging > Ranunculus ficaria at the New York Botanical Garden. I was going to warn > them about the plant's territorial ambitions but then decided that their > actions would bear a just reward. > > 'Nuff said. Let's go back to growing bulbs. Also corms, tubers, rhizomes. > > Judy in splendidly sunny and wonderful New Jersey _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/