Bill are you proposing to live in an established tree? Watch out for those
eucalyptus aren't they rather a fire hazard??
-very nice
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 26 June 2014 04:21
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Subject: Re: 'Saplings' corrected
Yes, no one ever knows, Max. But when we look at potential houses to buy
now, we find ourselves seeking mature gardens, established trees.
Bill
On Wed, Jun 25th, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Saplings
>
> In the park this winter morning
> tall saplings in pots waiting,
> two gardeners digging holes.
>
> The young one I congratulate -
> 'Good to see a machine isn't
> doing this work for you - yet.'
>
> He grins, leans on his shovel,
> or is it a spade? 'How many?'
> 'Five we're planting here, ten there.'
>
> I read the label - Tilia
> cordata - 'new to me', I say.
> Then the fine print - it's a Linden.
>
> Yellow-green flowers in spring -
> autumn deciduous. Linden
> I claim to know, at least know of.
>
> Didn't Grinling Gibbons carve
> flowers leaves and fruit from linden? - that never fade, wither or
> fall.
>
> How fast does it grow? how tall?
> 'Seven metres', I read out. 'Ah,
> I shan't live to see them that tall.'
>
> He smiles - 'you never know, never know.'
> Spring flowerings? - a few - maybe,
> you never know.
>
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