[Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

[Marion Thompson]

I have Delosperma cooperi in my new garden.  I'll be happy if it comes 
through the winter.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 10/20/2016 3:23 PM, Charles Wohlers wrote:
> Just dug up a couple of very small (<1 ft tall) black walnuts for 
> transplanting up in VT. We'll see how it goes. I do have 2 or more 
> acres of field, so it won't be hard to find a place for them where 
> they won't get in the way of other stuff. Also found several dozen 
> actual walnuts the squirrels haven't gotten to yet - might take some 
> of them also.
>
> And, Mike, I thought ice plant was a noxious invasive. It's not native 
> to California, for sure.
>
> Chad Wohlers
> East Bridgewater, MA USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
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> Cc: Cantor03 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.
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>
> In a message dated 10/20/2016 1:36:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mjl at ix.netcom.com writes:
>
> Reminds  me of my Pop's story of the only time he "went down to City Hall
> to  complain".  Seems >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>
> I had an event about 20 years ago that did inspire me to go down to
> Village Hall and verbally accost the "Village Engineer" of my dinky  home
> town in NW Wisconsin (Grantsburg, pop. 1,300).
>
> After the devastation of the Dutch Elm Disease (easily half the trees  in
> the village were American Elms), the village got busy replanting.   
> Somehow
> they came up with Yellow Bud Hickory (Carya cordiformis) trees for
> a two block stretch along the street where the family home was located.
> Hickories are almost impossible to transplant because of their prodigious
> taproot, but in this case the trees prospered until they were about  40'.
> Then, the Village Engineer decided that their roots might be a problem,
> and despite protests, they were all sacrificed.
>
> I pointed out their unusual qualities to a somewhat surprised Village
> Engineer,
> who knew who I was because my family was a big fish in a little pond.
> He was resolute in the righteousness of his actions.  I did get a chance
> to ventilate to the person responsible, and that felt good.
>
> It didn't bring back the hickories.
>
>
> David S.
>