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Re: Gardens - A World Wide Panorama
Nick Gordon 2006-Jun-20 06:57:00
I had the same thought, but what some people do with their garden is
create a different habitat, different soil, nutricience and acidity,
difference in height , slopes, more or less water. Plants will follow
circumstances which are best for them and though planted in a specific
spot, a natural, free, wild look will arise. In somewhat greater scale
,in Holland, some former agricultural areas are transformed to wetlands
where now migratory birds feed. What is wild is getting harder to say.
You can define wild as place where man had no influence, or as a place
where some natural behavior is free to be.
Nick
Op 20-jun-06 om 6:30 heeft G. Donald Bain het volgende geschreven:
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> On Jun 19, 2006, at 4:38 PM, Caroling Geary wrote:
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> > On Jun 19, 2006, at 6:03 PM, G. Donald Bain wrote:
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> >> Gardens ... can be natural, or totally wild.
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> > If so, what would distinguish the wild garden from the wild?
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> Wild as in unplanned and/or untended, or allowed to evolve on its
> own. As opposed to native species growing in their natural habitat.
> Most urban and suburban gardens have few, if any, truly native
> species, except perhaps mature trees.
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> Don
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