Easter Egg Trees are right up there with garden gnomes in my book. There's a place for them, and it's not in my garden (assuming I will have another home someday that includes a grassy lawn and a tree or two).
Before you get your typing fingers in an uproar, hear me out.
Have you ever stopped to calculate the amount of time it takes to physically tie or otherwise adhere each of these plastic eggs to a hapless bush in the front yard? I mean, really. In Florida mobile home parks, the "in" thing is to cut up colored Styrofoam egg cartons and poke all the rounded pieces on to Spanish Bayonets (otherwise known as Yucca plants in other parts of the world). It looks just as silly, believe me.
If you really want to add color to your lawn or garden, how about planting something seasonal that will rev up in the Spring and add that boost of color without the intervention of plastic and will add a little oxygen to the planet in the meantime? I can't think of much else that could be more beautiful that a bright red or pink dogwood, or a redbud in full dress uniform. Plastic eggs, no. Nature in all its glory, yes.
1 comment:
As mother nature's son, I hear you about the plastic egg trees.
I have an older neighbor who carefully decorates her tree every year with plastic eggs...tacky, maybe, but it just wouldn't feel like spring without those darned plastic eggs!
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