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Whltby Free Pres, Wednesday, ýMy 31.19M5,Page 7 Green fingers Gardens corne in two variations: those as photo- graphed i specialty magazines, and those which look le yours and mine. This variation would be quite acceptable, but for one flaw: certain people ini most households insist that the latter be transformed into the former. Which in short means that my backyard should, look like the one featured ini Canadian Homes and Miflionaire R A r Gardens. - Nice thought that. But those certain people refuse te, acknowledge bsic facts. First, the girl (or guy) who took those photos for Millionaire Gardens has neyer planted a tulip bulb. And second, the cost of the photo session ini that layout is double our total garden budget for a quarter century; third, before the photo session, the property owner paid somebody tob ack- comb the lawn. Neyer mind. The maRa e has been carelessly tossed onto the coffee table for ar tistie effect. And a finger points. "Nice looking backyard,» a voice says. Right, Would 1 be impudent or just imprudent to ETR mention that like the Millionaire Garden photogra-........... Ehercerainpeople have limited knowledge of ort'éltualstuif Tne finger points: "Pink stuf there, sticky-up purple stTf there, move that tree over here, the peony that we moved there last year cornes back here this year.» And so on. Speaking of inger pointing: we do spend more tiîne at garden centres than in the garden. "Two of those, and three of those, and oh those are pretty Ilil have five and isn't that Bishop's Gout the prettiest stuif ou ever saw?» A hundred and forty seven dollars ater we're home. Those of us raised in the country and who neyer saw a garden centre until we were forty-two know Éhe patience required. People with green fingers do not. Good gardens take time. "Give the tulip bulbs two, three years te, mature and well have a mice little tulip bed there," I would reply. But no. Some want it right first time. Fussy.. - oThe ertlhising pandinprc hs ed 3495) aINTERIOR 0F ANDREW KERR'S BLACKSMITH SHOP ASHBURNg9 1891 The village blacksmith was very important inivr aaincmuiyi h comcute~lannn pr~m, to sow wat yur dys bforethe utombile Andew Krr (854-936)wasin Asahburn tuntil 1909 when F or one thing, turming compýost gives me a sense of rc n obreSres challenge. Meanwhile, the green finger keeps busy. a The old Annes house at Dundas and Francis Streets has been proposed as a museum Last year, the cosmos 1. planted fom seeds juet but there is no oney te move it to a new location as required by the owner. ha end te sprin~ up ini front of the favoured 0 Benevolent ]Rebekah Liodge is celebrating its 47th anniversary. derirrch*um (blue). fy fault the cosmos grew te, be five foot seven, covered with bloom? So this year, 8 ER G when the cosmos agaïn sprung up (on their own, 8ro0te hu Ada Ma ,11 diinoOh stubborn critters) the greening finger wrte large in Frl heTByGaýZETEAND C,191HéionofCte the loam. The cosmos have ben banished te lonely 0 A branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund has, been formed in WhityihMao corners. Frank Warren as president. Misus Margurite Hmuth of Wingham is the 1915 May Queen at the Ontario Ladies' Maybe I should tely ou about the playhouse. But College.. no, that's a book-lengt manuscript. The structure 0 The second annual Brooklin Spring Fair attracted 1,500 te 2,000 people te Vipond's started life as a playhouse for a nine-year-old. By the Grove on May 24. time it's complete,. it may be a garden shed for potty *a meing will be held in the Town Hall on June 1 te apportion cosafoimrvn old ranparets.the Kingston Road between Toronto and Oshawa. But good gardens take time, don't they? MOI______________________________