Think of all the energy those ancient Druids must have had…running around on days like this…performing their pagan rituals to celebrate the beginning of another season…moving giant rocks dozens of miles and sticking them in the ground to confound anthropologists thousands of years later. What if Stonehenge doesn’t really represent anything? Maybe they just thought it looked cool?
My own solstice approaches…the day I’ll have to leave the comfort of my nursery office and venture forth in search of a real job in the real world. My wife tells me this is necessary. In a former life I worked for several years as a certified public accountant. It was a hard harried life, but there were certain benefits to it, like getting a paycheck once in a while. We’ll see how that goes…
In the meantime, we’ve still got a few things to sell…like sempervivums! and hardy cactus! When a prop worker was in the doghouse we would make them propagate hardy prickly pear cactus with hot-dog tongs. If you’ve ever worked around these, you’ll swear that the needles jump like porcupine quills. Either there wasn’t much of a market for hardy prickly pear cactus…or we had a lot of prop workers in the doghouse. Stop by…buy some…we’ve got lots… Mexicans are supposed to eat cactus but our Mexicans wouldn’t eat these cactus…
The Coopers Hawks are still making a lot of racket behind our store. And now we’ve got a herd of wild turkeys running through the empty container houses. Not so many deer tracks now that we’re out of Knockout Roses…maybe the deer waddled down to Beardslees for another meal…
I got an intern so I’d have someone to boss around. He’s a senior at Perry High School and he’s scanning in all our important NGLCO documents. He could be here for years. Great kid. He just made a seven-minute video for NGLCO…welcome to the nursery industry of lake county ohio…
Kris and I are working with Tim Brotzman to help the Unionville Tavern Restoration folks get the gardens back into shape. They want to try and recreate what it might have looked like around 1915. We’re going through old nursery catalogs to figure out what was in vogue at that time. I’m telling them that hardy prickly pear cactus was all the rage back then…