"Tush!" said Colonel Pikeaway... "I could do a column on gardening myself without knowing a thing about it -- just crib from a few luridly illustrated nurserymen's catalogues and a gardening encyclopedia. I know all the patter. 'Why not break away from tradition and sound a really tropical note in your border this year? Lovely Amabellis Gossiporia, and some of the wonderful new Chinese hybrids of Sinensis Maka foolia. Try the rich blushing beauty of a clump of Sinistra Hopaless, not very hardy but they should be all right against a west wall.' Nothing to it! The fools buy the things and early frost sets in and kills them and they wish they'd stuck to wallflowers and forget-me-nots!"
---- Cat Among the Pigeons, Agatha Christie, 1959.
Some things never do change. Memo: vinca, Mexican heather, and sweet potato vine in the summer. Purple petunias in the fall.
No new Chinese hybrids of Sinensis Maka foolia.
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