Henry Docter, 52, of NW, D.C., is photographed next to the Morning Glories he planted at the Dupont Metro North Station on June 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Posted on 07/07/2013 1:24:23 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
It turns out I underestimated Metro bureaucrats’ capacity for folly.
Two weeks ago, I wrote that the transit system would look silly if it let perish 1,000 flowers planted secretly at the Dupont Circle station by local garden artist Henry Docter, the self-described Phantom Planter.
I feared that Metro would merely neglect the flowers. Instead, last Sunday, it sent workmen to yank them out.
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Henry Docter, 52, of NW, D.C., is photographed next to the Morning Glories he planted at the Dupont Metro North Station on June 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
frankly, who does this guy think he is? Was he going to tend it?
D.C. can rest easy now that this anarchist and his vandalism have been excised.
White boy Tag!
You are so right. They overtake the trees in my neighborhood. My arms itch like crazy when I have to pull it off my fence.
Obey you must !
How appropriate.
But don’t bother cleaning up the smithsonian stop or all the garbage and papers at the entrances and stairways at all the stops.
oh stop, it was a nice thing that he did
I ask again....was he going to tend it? Did he make this "nice" gesture and except DC to take care of it? Was it in their budget to do so? When it overtakes the escalator (which it would if it isn't tending), who pays for repairs?
These are the domesticated Morning Glories not the invasive wild Morning Vine that only Roundup will kill...
We had a circle about 150' in diameter as part of a traffic flow pattern in a residential Philadelphia neighborhood. It was full of weeds, trash, rats, and all sorts of untidiness. It was that way for years. The city would cut it once a year.
Our neighborhood got together and hit the whole thing with roundup, tilled it, planted it with annuals and perennials, and ground covers. We threw in a few brick pathways and two benches to rest.
We got fined for $5,000 per day until it was all removed. They waited until we were finished and letters of praise came into the city for their splendid work from motorists.
We had no authority to do such a thing. We did not have a DOT approved list of allowed plants. We did not have any surveying or erosion analysis. The benches they claimed were a hazard.
So now the city redoes the project. They spent over $300,000 to do far less what we did for about $1,000 and equity sweat of about fifty of the neighborhood volunteers.
That's how gubmint works.
1.) Kudzu
2.) Bamboo
3.) A few "Trees of Paradise"
After that, sit back and watch it all devour D.C. like something out of a sci-fi movie.
LOL.
If you want something truly screwed up you must involve government.
I notice Metro waited until Sunday to send workers out, paying those union workers double-time for destruction that could have been done the following day at half the cost. Of course doing nothing would have cost nothing, but then who cares when you’re spending someone else’s money.
The man has 30 years' successful experience in planting and tending public ornamental sites.
My dog eats tomatoes. I stopped planting them and they show up all over my gardens every year. A sewage plant worker once told me that the best tomato plants you can get are the ones that grow out of the mounds of sewage sludge they heap up to compost at municipal sewage treatment sites. They pop up from the poop by the thousands.
“It’s got some wang to it”
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