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Wednesday, March 21,

1990 — C13

“Are you a closet garden hater?

“himself” suggests 1 write
something for gardeners who
secretly HATE gardening. By this
I assume he means people who
really don’t have a lot of spare
time to devote to their gardens, but
would stilll like the home turf to
look reasonably neat, tidy and
perhaps even rather pretty.

I could suggest that you pave the

in each hole to give your garden a
sort of serene Japanese garden
look.

You would possibly need a
cement pagoda and perhaps a
small Buddha to make it a little
more authentic, and maybe a half
buried birdbath basin to provide
the requisite reflecting pool.

Although I have been kidding a

Another possibility might be to
spread what is called landscape
cloth, and cover this with bark .. .
at least this way your shrubs would
get watered by rain, whereas under
plastic mulch (unless you have left
a sizable hole around each shrub)
it will never again get watered
unless you put the hose under the
plastic and let it dribble around

garden with color was only partly
in jest. Potted plants are easier to

look after, especially if the pots are
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