Urban Sanctuaries
Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener
by Stephen Anderton
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Workman Pub Co,
2001
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Asylum or sanctuary, that's the question. A garden which is forever having new plants added to it is a bit like New York in the early twentieth century - full of new people from all over the world, busy, exhilirating, and after a while, totally exhausting, so that you have to cry, "Whoa! Give me some peace!"
Now, every gardener adds new plants to his garden. That's part of the fun of having a garden. But additions mustn't be indiscriminate. You have to lose something to make space for the new. You have to have an immigration policy. But some gardeners, the plantaholics, welcome everything. They want to try everything. And to make, on that basis, a garden or a civilization which is also peaceful is hard. Especially in a small space.
Other gardeners have a more selective immigration policy. They welcome plants from only certain genera, which they then collect avidly.
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