<<<What do you think? >>> We get The Whole Earth Review (CoEvolution Quarterly) and this guy was in there a while back, with some photos.
It gives me a peculiar sensation, actually. I admire plant creations, I mean anyone, pretty much anyone, who grows plants prunes them, altering their shape from "natural." I have collector friends who sort of agonize over whether this should be done with species (particularly the vast group of rhododendrons). But I don't know any of them who grow plants "wild". (Untended). Japanese gardens, which are the ultimate collusion, "look natural."
Some of the most precious of my surviving plants are grafted to tough rootstock.
But there's something about these graftings that are aesthetically bizarre. Even more bizarre than topiary. Topiary isn't so bizarre to look at, but it's bizarre to do.
To spend this kind of work with these cane-and-wheelchair rickety aesthetic results is queasy and scary and peculiar, and I hope I haven't offended you, my new friend, with my "honest" opinion.
Generally, in such cases, I look for cues from the questioner, so that I can lie to them appropriately. But I decided we can survive this, even if you have two sycamores in the back of the truck with which to make a mouse and monitor.
Or a little crocodile.
You wouldn't, do that, would you? |
