April 23, 2005

Gratuitous MSM Garden Posting (TM)

Geoffrey Norman had a humorous article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about high-end status gardening.

The first part of it was about people who have become obsessed with designer labels for their gardening tools, gloves and clothing. As a "primitive" myself, to borrow Norman's term, I simply put on my old jeans with the holes in the knees and my twenty year old L.L. Bean wellies, grab my Tru-Value hoe, smile and murmer something to myself about a fool and his money as I head out the door. As a matter of fact, I am thankful to say that I do not actually know anybody like this - the people who I do know who garden themselves are fellow primitives. Around here, the status-obsessed generally think gardening to be beneath them and get the help to do it instead.

The last part of the article deals with the status of the things you actually put in the ground. Here, as Norman says, there is something of a point to it, I think. Getting hold of a plant with a particular pedigree is rather a neat thing. And there is nothing new about seeking out unusual varietals.

But while it's all well and good to put in a plant that can trace its roots (ha!) back to Monticello, for instance, my favorite plants are those with a more personal history. For instance, I have several flowers in my garden that came from my godparents' perennial beds. This summer, I'm going to help myself to some of my dad's roses and peonies up in Maine. And my own irises have offspring spread around our neighborhood. When friends and family trade specimens with each other, to me that is the most satisfying pedigree planting.

Norman also specifically mentions heirloom tomatoes. Tomato-blogging is Steve-O's turf around here, but I can't help mentioning (speaking of pedigree planting) that my sister sent me an heirloom tomato starter set for my birthday. In fact, I just transplanted the little darlin's into larger pots this morning. There are six varieties: Brandywine, Evergreen, Tigerelle, White Cherry, Garden Peach and Martino's Roma.

Truth be told, I can't stand tomatoes. But I do enjoy cooking with them. So come this summer, I'm looking forward to preparing some of those tomato-based dishes about which Steve-O waxes so elequently.

YIPS from Steve: You want your high-end snob garden supplies? What are you, an idiot? Ah, but you want your high-end plants and seeds? This here is the place for you: The Center for Historic Plants at Monticello.

The magnificent one who braved marrying an undomesticated LLama worked there for awhile in the summers after the first two little ones were born, basically for fun. The upshot was we got a lot of plants on discount, particularly their end of season clearout---the fruit trees (2 different apples and a peach) came that way. This year I'm trying to fall under Robbo's influence and focus more on flowers, or I should say in addition to the vegetables.

Posted by Robert at April 23, 2005 10:44 AM
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I do know high end snob gardeners. I have deduced that they are people that have already paid off their mortgage and therefore have oodles of disposable income.
I watched a grown man go into an absolute hissy fit at an obscure greenhouse because they were out of a particular variety of Trillium one spring! Trillium is not a make or break on my personal happiness meter so I found the whole thing to be hysterical...
Right now I have five varieties of heirloom tomatoes under the plant lights! Box Car Willie, Cherokee Purple, Super Sioux-Lacota, Hillbilly West Virginia, and Principe Borghese. I also have the obligatory Tomatillo Green Husk perking along for salsa purposes.

Posted by: babs at April 24, 2005 08:20 AM

There are poseurs in every sphere of human endeavor, so no reason to think that gardening should be an exception (although garden snobbery is scarcely a 21st century phenomenon!). The good news, I think, is that the insincere are unlikely to stick around for too long (gardening *is* work, after all), and regardless of the less-than-pure motivations of some of those throwing money into their latest hobby, if this helps a few more folks actually make a living in the horticultural field, so much the better.

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