This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT I'm here to tell you about a vegetable menace that is the AIDS of the plant world. If you live in most parts of North America, these plants have you surrounded. They're butt-ugly brown sticks thrusting phallically into the sky in unnatural rows, crowned by a spidery fright-wig of spikes. They look like a raspberry on a stick. I'm talking, of course, about the omnipresent palm tree, found everywhere in your city. It doesn't matter what you hate, this tree embodies it. The palm tree is the non-native plant imported for the wrong reasons, planted in places it didn't belong, among residents who never wanted it, and which has wrecked a veritable holocaust that would be impressive coming from a B-movie body snatcher invasion. And you're laughing "Palm trees? Seriously? What's with this guy?" Well, here's a little list of citations to wipe that grin off your face… #1: Palm trees are utterly useless. Sure, you might be saying "But…
Every neighborhood has at least one.
From one corner of the earth to another this person isn't hard to spot. They have been exposed to the calming, meditative, mood, and life-altering effects of gardening. There they are, bathing in the therapeutics offered up by the delightful sights, sounds, and odors found only in a garden.
Growing up there was an old man around the corner who was always in his garden. He had course white hair, rough, like dried sage, that poked out of his grey golfer's cap. He carried an orange metal stool that he sat on as he pruned, and plucked, and snipped at the flowers.
He walked with a bend in his back, never leaving that half-seated position, ready to plop back onto the stool and resume his work. The curvature of his spine was distinct, earned by decades of hard work and bending over the soil. Every once in a while I would see him working happily with his wife, but most of the time it was just him. Seeing him out there day after day, month…
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