Saturday 19 June 2010
GARDEN MAKEOVER
May 9 update
A lot of water passed since our last visit to the Bosketto and the disappointment of finding Marjorie Holmes' laboriously planted succulents replaced throughout by costly and temporary Cineraria. Let us recapitulate on a bizarre story becoming bizarrer: However, I visited the 'garden' on an unfairly rainy day and snapped an update.
At a meeting in the Mayoralty, it is pointed out that, despite Marjorie Holmes' expertise and assistance having been requested from the very highest level - the Mayor himself - still no help has come from the massed ranks of the Municipal gardening staff. 
MH will be introduced to a member of staff who will be assigned to her for all future necessary assistance and liaison with the Mayor's office.
The strange case of the 'well-dressed gentleman': One day in the garden, MH is addressed by a well-dressed Greek who asks her if she likes the floral arrangement.
Since such plants are costly and temporary, little credence is placed on this prediction
In their place, ready-made plants as far as the eye could stretch.
Lo! I did not even have to wait that long.
GONE ~ May 9, the cineraria were gone - but not ALL the cineraria, just the bed on which MHolmes had worked.
From photographs and measuring on the ground, I have an approximate measure of the area covered by the cineraria.
Phormiums ~ As reported in posts passim, MH brought some magnificent phormiums from her own garden to be planted in the Bosketto.
Instead of being planted in one block as is correct, they were divided up and the sad single strands plonked around.
Touchingly, these are being dutifully watered but one need only compare the full bush as it could have been today to the Sad Sap single specimens struggling to make a presence.
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