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At the ag fair in Rappello , I was tempt by crybaby for sale . We now have way at our domicile for brute addition , though we do n’t eat much meat or eggs .
I think one of the most coarse mistakes we all make with our gardens is what I call bungalow - garden Fever . bungalow gardens are helter-skelter admixture of one of this and one of that , and while the big mess may be quite charming sometimes , the unfortunate result is a lack of profound power . Gardens that use less species and more individuals of the species that are used are far more brawny . Japanese garden bring home the bacon a good good example of the simpleness - peer - power possibility .
Unfortunately , we all have a inclination to treat our gardens like botanical garden in which the collections of rarified plants take precedence . In California , I worked for some pretty uppish nurseries — the kind with limousine slot in the parking lot — and we nurserymen used to intrude playfulness at our customers who had that sort of landscape painting . “ Portuguese landscape gardening ” we ’d call it : “ One of every single plant they like in the nursery . ” Of course , now that I live in Europe and know a bit more about the landscape gardening here , I know that most of the gardens in Portugal actually show a howling simpleness that makes the garden quite attractive .
I suffer dreadfully from bungalow - garden Fever , and I ’m a sucker for anything that seem good in the nursery . But I bed about this job I have , and I ’m crusade myself hard to resist and just diffuse and enter the plant coinage I already have in the garden instead of buy new plant life metal money to sate the clean spots .
The ag fair in Rappello featured a show by the Italian semi - pro chainsaw squad .
At the ag fair in Rappello, I was tempted by chickens for sale. We now have room at our home for animal additions, though we don’t eat much meat or eggs.
I ’m likewise afflicted in the agricultural department as well . I ’d love to have a tractor , a vineyard , a glasshouse , an European olive tree orchard and every art object of equipment in the farm storehouse , but I do n’t really involve any of that . I now have the infinite where I could raise bee , chickens , rabbit or even a goat if I wished . The attractor is very strong , even though we do n’t actually eat many eggs or inwardness . I also have a fantasy about having a few Goat and making our own cheese .
I do know , however , that I ’ve already arrive more than I can really handle with the vegetable garden . I ’ve get all the tools and equipment I postulate , and taking on the responsibility for some animals ’ well - being is not a decision to be taken lightly .
All this made the late ag fair in Rapallo a snatch difficult for me . It ’s a swell event with a bunch of booths sell all sorts of plants , creature and ag equipment . Bees , volaille , geese , ducks , turkey , rabbits , goats and sheep were all offered for cut-rate sale . The yearly upshot also features a stop on the Italian semi - pro squad chainsaw circuit , and they play one of their date here at this fair every yr . I already take over a friend ’s chainsaw to cut down the few 12 scouring trees on the garden site , so I do n’t really take a chainsaw , but I will accommodate I find them very attractive .
So , I suppose it was a undecomposed affair that my married woman accompanied me on my sojourn to the fair this yr , as I successfully tour all the cubicle and display without buying a new chainsaw , a new flowering plant or a gaggle of geese . I reckon the garden will be more knock-down as a result .
