Oh lor', another bonsai fan! Robin Hamilton seems to be obsessed with the
things. His are currently boarded out with his daughter while he's in the
States.
But I'm sure you realise that for horticultural purposes you need washed
sand, not the quality they sell for builders. I used to grow African violets
(Saintpaulia) obsessively, and read up on everything. Shrubs (proper-sized)
interest me much more these days, though.
I've spent quite a lot of the last 25 years trying to write a long poem
about the botanist-explorer Joseph Hooker -- ended up totally bogged down in
the research and unable to find imaginative space for the words. So that
killed that one, in the end, and taught me a useful lesson too.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: Duemer's Contingency Rule for Poetry Contests
>I use it in bonsai soil.
>
> jd
>
> On 3/18/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it's a good name. Sharp sand, otherwise known as builder's sand
>> is used for loosening clay soil.
>>
>> http://gardens.com/terms/index.php?tid=805
>>
>> I've never judged a poetry competition - and I don't want to - but it
>> seems to me that the judges must at least recognise the style of most
>> of the entrants, particularly in the fish-bowl that is UK poetry. How
>> can judges not be influenced by this knowledge? Or am I being too
>> bitter and cynical?
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On 3/18/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > I'm with you on contests, Joe. And btw I love the name
>> > of your blog, though you could go one better and make
>> > it sound like a place name: Sharp Sand Flats.
>> >
>> > Hal
>> >
>> > "He's the kind of guy who can brighten
>> > a room by leaving it."
>> > --Milton Berle
>> >
>> > Halvard Johnson
>> > ================
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
>> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> >
>> > On Mar 18, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>> >
>> > > Avoiding the work I should be doing, I wrote this last night
>> > > <http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/03/17/poetry-contest/>on my blog.
>> > > May be of
>> > > interest.
>> > >
>> > > jd
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Joseph Duemer
>> > > Professor of Humanities
>> > > Clarkson University
>> > > [sharpsand.net]
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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