I'm intrigued by these gardening references from both
Jim & Daniel. In a completely unthinking, chauvinistic way
I'd never associated the Yanks with green thoughts in a green
shade. It was always an English gentlewoman in her sun hat
& canvas gloves bent over her flower bed while, high above,
the Spitfires etched their icy lines in the blue, Kentish sky.
Or, indeed, my own Scots mother resolutely forking up potato
drills during that same wartime summer.
I can't think of a single scene from Hollywood - to which
so many of us look for some picture of American life -
where Clint or Jennifer or Arnie or Demi straighten up
charmingly to stretch their backs after a wholesome hour
in the shrubbery.
Plenty of sprinklers playing on manicured lawns, yes,
but little or nothing of the real thing. Was I misled?
Are you actually all out there with trowel & watering
can, secaturs in the holster ever ready for the quick
dead-heading?
Scottie B.
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