Pat Haywards artical

[tangerine-jack]

I'm with Old Dad on keeping plant tags, they seem to migrate to new homes over the winter. I believe in survival of the fittest, if it dies, I don't want to know what it was, if it lives, then I don't care so long as it's green or flowery. ( I tried to post a photo of my RR but I can't seem to figure out how.) I do get a lot of complements on the health and vitality of my garden RR, but mostly it's the plants' will to live that makes it nice.[oX)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bman36

Hey Guys,
While we were at Larry's place I had a chance to flip through the new issue and commented on that article. Poor Larry...every time my wife asked what his plantings were he would just smile with "I'm not sure". From what I saw it was very informative. I find here that we can go back to our favorite garden center, pick up the same plant as last year, and when compared to the previous one...it's different! What's up with that??? Sometimes it's subtle, other times very obvious. Weird. Later eh...Brian.

Poor Larry?... "Poor, doesn't have a clue, Larry" would be more like it Brian. I can seldom find the plant tags when I need them so no longer save them.
If it grows, great. If it dies I'll try a different plant next time.
Pat's article will save me a lot of trial and error.....Thanks Pat.

OLD DAD

[bman36]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Pat Hayward

I'm glad you all are pleased with the tree buyer's guide. It was so hard to be limited to so FEW types of trees (they only gave me 8 pages!) and cover as many different planting conditions as possible. I agree that the small figure next to the silhouette is very helpful (Marc's idea) and shows scale in a really meaningful way. We decided to show the plants in the pots, straight from the nursery since it's a "buyer's guide" to help readers pick out plants at the garden center. So many of out other gardening pieces show more mature plants that have often been trimmed. Happy gardening!
Pat

Hi Pat,
My wife's first comment was "Now that I can use!" Guess I will be making copies for her [:D] since I don't plan on letting the new issue out of sight yet! Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad you all are pleased with the tree buyer's guide. It was so hard to be limited to so FEW types of trees (they only gave me 8 pages!) and cover as many different planting conditions as possible. I agree that the small figure next to the silhouette is very helpful (Marc's idea) and shows scale in a really meaningful way. We decided to show the plants in the pots, straight from the nursery since it's a "buyer's guide" to help readers pick out plants at the garden center. So many of out other gardening pieces show more mature plants that have often been trimmed. Happy gardening!
Pat

[bman36]

Hey Guys,
While we were at Larry's place I had a chance to flip through the new issue and commented on that article. Poor Larry...every time my wife asked what his plantings were he would just smile with "I'm not sure". From what I saw it was very informative. I find here that we can go back to our favorite garden center, pick up the same plant as last year, and when compared to the previous one...it's different! What's up with that??? Sometimes it's subtle, other times very obvious. Weird. Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

I am most interested in any botanical informatioon I can get and I have seen Pat's work before, very good. But I have a problem in that Australia was part of the old Gwandana Land and as such has few of the varieties mentioned in most Graden Railroading books and many of them you cannot import into Autralia in general, and Queensland in particular. Particularly if it is anything to do with tropical crops, that are all around us Mangoes, watermelon, bananas, Pineapple sugar cane etc.

Another thing is that Queensland and particularly The Sunshine Coast has no real equivalnt in mainland USA. It is closer to Hawaii but a bit like Florida.

Regards ian

[Anonymous]

I agree with you Marty. It was well writen.
It is sad for me to see when we are out on a job (landscaping) and I request certian plants because the spec.s call for them and you get something abit different out of the truck. Then you just have to do and make it greatly improve the place.
I wish I had the instructions shown in this artical because it could have come in very handy.
Now for my railway I will not go to my suppliers but yet to a center.

[Marty Cozad]

This months GRY artical on Buyers guide is great.
As soon as I looked at it I realized I would have to remove the pages and save them in an information file. It is so simple for non-plant type people like myself. this next spring i can take it and show the plant store what I want or see how it would fit into a scene. Names alone never seem to give me enough info. Or seeing a RR with them all over. But the profile with the scale person is great.
Thanks Pat.