You can lead a horse to water

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September 8, 2016 I've been emailing back and forth with an old classmate of mine who lives in Texas, not far from Austin. Every time I have an email exchange with her, she complains about all the work she does in her yard and garden. She complains about the weeds and how her flowers aren't doing well and about how much work it all is. So I asked her if she'd visited the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin and shared with her that in the past I'd gone there twice a year for the native plant and seed sale, with a goal of totally landscaping my place with plants native to the state. Once that was accomplished, the yard maintenance was minimal, just mowing and thinning. Beautiful, too, and attractive to birds, bees and butterflies. Nope, she wasn't interested in that, she said. She's content with what she has. Except for invasive morning glories, and complaints about the spread of the ash tree, and complaints about the birds spreading the morning glories, and that the people she'd hired destroyed her flowers. And yet the solution is right there. The utopia of a low-maintenance landscape. I guess she'd rather live with frustration? You can bet I've led that horse to water for the last time, lol.