Blackest heresy

[jhetley]

We're considering the purchase of an . . . artificial . . . tree (there, I've said it in public) this year. This from people who have a gazillion balsam trees growing free out on our country estate, and who know a couple of commercial Merchantmas tree growers. Problem is, we want something in the 3' - 4' range, to place in front of the fireplace and beneath our Victorian mantel with the sconce lights and Grecian urn and mirror, where we set up Grandmother's Victorian Santa Set, with the cast lead reindeer (actually elk, sayeth The Naturalist, but it's the thought that counts.)

And commercial growers don't sell short trees. We have to buy a taller one and cut it down. Nor do our own balsams meet the need, as we don't prune them to make them dense and shapely at a young and virgin-ish age.

Do you think the sun god will return if we don't sacrifice a living tree this solstice? I don't want to put the future of the world in jeopardy here.

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[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Purple loosestife is definitely flora non grata... Rosa multiflora is the only monster loose on my property - although the very native red maples and the oaks certainly try to act as invasives, particularly to the spots the wife says must remain lawn area...

Haven't had any bats in the ol' belfry yet, although they've been fun to watch as they reduce the mosquito and gnat population. Now if something would munch the Japanese beetles, that would be one alien I'd be happy to know was deported or digested.