Ha ha, jp!! I certainly think you might be growing just about anything down there in Alabama. Especially since you obviously love the land a lot--or at least I think you do from your descriptions of it, and your waxing poetic almost about how you feel after using the weed eater. After years of strictly abiding by almost all of the laws I can think of, I stumbled across a marijuana bud recently and discovered my writing skills temporarily much improved as the result. In fact, sometimes I read posts and wonder whether the writer has recently indulged in something or other! Especially in some of the really moody and manic people around SI, their entire tone changes so frequently and to such a degree that speculation is inevitable.
But of course hemp itself is not intoxicating. I was actually referring to whether you knew anything about the "conspiracy" to keep hemp down. It is a fascinating story, and yet I have forgotten a lot about it, and just hoped someone would remember.
Speaking of the pleasures of gardening and marijuana, this garden is so sensual you might want to eat it if you got the munchies!!! The article is from a column called Ask Dr. Hort by Victor Yool in the S.F. Chronicle July 30:
"Q: I'm planning a fragrance garden with a somewhat different emphasis. The fragrance I want to predominate is chocolate. I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.
A: Chocolate, eh? Whatever butters your bagel.
You don't mention the scale of this intended garden, but if you have the space, definitely include at least one Azara dentate, a beautiful small tree from Child that covers itself each spring with scads of little yellow flowers fragrant of vanilla and chocolate (some say white chocolate).
Montanoa grandiflora, the Mexican tree daisy, grows to 10 feet or so, and the big sprays of white daisylike flowers that appear fall and winter have an intense, dark chocolate aroma that reminds some of baking chocolate chip cookies.
Cosmos atrosanguineus, the chocolate cosmos (another Mexican import), is a beautiful tuberous perennial blooming from spring to fall with lots of deep maroon flowers that smell like, well, you know.
There are two scented-leaf pelargoniums, chocolate and chocolate mint, that you could place near paths where the fragrance will release as people brush against them. Use cocoa bean hulls to mulch, and a stroll through your garden might well smell like a stroll through See's, without caloric temptations." (For those of you who don't know, See's is a California candy company.)
Anyway, reading that makes me feel like rolling in cocoa bean hull mulch or something!!!
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