nasty neighbor

From: LMassey628 at aol.com on 2002.12.07 at 14:18:29(9683) I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they specifically singled out. +More Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about this person ? Linda

From: araceae at earthlink.net on 2002.12.09 at 00:17:46(9686) Is it possible to sneak a blooming plant into her/his living room and hide it behind the sofa? Dewey +More I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they specifically singled out. Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about this person ? Linda -- Your Source for Tropical Araceae go to http://home.earthlink.net/~araceae/

From: Harry Witmore harrywitmore at witmore.net> on 2002.12.09 at 00:32:04(9687) This brings back the memory of being threatened with being thrown out of my rental house because I owned dangerous animals ( boas, pythons, kings snakes). All of my animals were very small and no threat to anyone. I finally had to remove them from my house although I kept a 4' monitor lizard. +More Bottom line is that you should fight this sort of foolishness Make them prove it. You'll at least have till summer. Some well placed road kill may help in a defense. Good luck. We're with you all the way. At 09:18 AM 12/7/02 -0500, you wrote: I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they specifically singled out. Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about this person ? Linda Harry Witmore Zone 7 NC Cloud Jungle Art Epiphytes.Org Cloud Jungle ePiphytes

From: Valerie Gillman hortma at yahoo.com> on 2002.12.09 at 01:08:56(9688) geez! how many weeks of the year is it in bloom? surely they won't take it seriously? val +More I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

From: "Marge Talt" mtalt at hort.net> on 2002.12.09 at 05:18:40(9692) > From: LMassey628@aol.com > I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter +More > of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly > plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my > gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they > specifically singled out. > Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about > this person ? > Linda ---------- My comment about this person is that they don't have enough to do with their time and have some kind of definite mental problem. But, if your neighborhood association is seriously thinking about fining you $100/day unless you destroy your plants, based on one letter from one person, then it seems to me you need to get a good lawyer and start some legal proceedings of your own. You, at least, need to investigate the basis upon which your association is proposing to act and, perhaps, get some sympathetic neighbors to write letters in your support to counter this one complaint. Of course, I do not know what the covenants of your neighborhood association are, but if they are that restrictive, they need to be challenged by you and some like-minded neighbors. It would seem to me that more than one complaint by more than one neighbor over a period of time would be needed to initiate this type of action on the part of your association. Personally, I wouldn't just sit there and let them do this without a good fight:-) I have not flowered any Amorphophallus, but it appears, from research, that the flowers only emit scent for a very short period. Unless you are trying to produce seed, perhaps you can agree (if pushed into a corner) to remove the inflorescence before it opens. I wouldn't agree to that unless it was a last resort, tho'. Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland mtalt@hort.net Editor: Gardening in Shade ----------------------------------------------- Current Article: Wild, Wonderful Aroids Part 3 - Amorphophallus http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening ------------------------------------------------ Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html ------------------------------------------------ All Suite101.com garden topics : http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635

From: "Derek Burch" derek at horticulturist.com> on 2002.12.09 at 12:55:25(9696) What ghastly neighbours. My daughter is very lucky - she had nine blooming at once last year in her front garden a few feet from the street. No one complained about the smell, but there were some raised eyebrows about the buzzards circling overhead. Derek ----- Original Message ----- From: Harry Witmore +More To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:32 PM Subject: Re: [aroid-l] nasty neighbor This brings back the memory of being threatened with being thrown out of my rental house because I owned dangerous animals ( boas, pythons, kings snakes). All of my animals were very small and no threat to anyone. I finally had to remove them from my house although I kept a 4' monitor lizard. Bottom line is that you should fight this sort of foolishness Make them prove it. You'll at least have till summer. Some well placed road kill may help in a defense. Good luck. We're with you all the way. At 09:18 AM 12/7/02 -0500, you wrote: I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they specifically singled out. Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about this person ? Linda Harry Witmore Zone 7 NC Cloud Jungle Art Epiphytes.Org Cloud Jungle ePiphytes

From: "Bryant, Harry E." HEBryant at scj.com> on 2002.12.09 at 13:59:36(9698) I've been complaining about body odor and cigarette smoke for many years, but have been ignored by all. So, if I were you I'd just ignore the person who complains about YOUR property and it odors. To exchange in words will only fan the flames. My guess is there is no legal grounds as long as there is no health hazard. Harry +More -----Original Message----- Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 8:18 AM To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu Subject: [aroid-l] nasty neighbor I discovered yesterday that someone who lives on my street has sent a letter of complaint to our local neighborhood association mentioning my "smelly plant", Amorphophallus paeonifolius. Of course they don't like my gesneriads, orchids, bromeliads either, but this is the only plant they specifically singled out. Do any members of the International Aroid Society have any comments about this person ? Linda

From: Louise Parsons parsont at peak.org> on 2002.12.09 at 15:54:47(9699) We do need to fight this absurdity. Our typical neighborhood has many smells that varying folks dislike or find offensive: exhaust fumes, grossly smelly perfumes emitted from dryer vents --gagball!, cigarette smoke, lawn chemicals, burning flesh from the barbecues (as our vegetarian neighbor calls this), privet hedges, hawthorn trees that, when in bloom, ~strongly smell like burning rubber, etc. Some people are extremely allergic to pollen from "notorious" flowers such as lilies and bearded iris. Others are allergic to (yes) lawn grasses. You get my drift Tell 'em, "Look, we can't pad the corners of the world"! All the best for outrageous, AROIDACEOUS, HOLIDAYS, Louise Corvallis, ORegon, Pacific Northwest US Cool mediterranean marine, with three-zone span of microclimate Rock and Woodland Garden pages http://www.peak.org/~parsont/rockgard/ +More Emerald Chapter, North American Rock Garden Society: http://www.peak.org/~parsont/emerald/ Flying Pages, with New Aircraft Icing Page: http://www.peak.org/~parsont/rockgard/StudentPilot.htm 'net Admin "Geek Page" for Internet and e-mail help: http://www.peak.org/~parsont/rockgard/MyToolbox.htm **********************************************************

From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2002.12.09 at 19:18:12(9702) In a message dated 12/9/2002 8:23:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, parsont@peak.org writes: > Tell 'em, "Look, we can't pad the corners of the world"! +More > Might I hazard a guess this person is in California? Three months was all I could stand of what has to be the most Orwellian state in the USA!

From: LMassey628 at aol.com on 2002.12.10 at 13:07:54(9704) In a message dated 12/10/02 12:47:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, MossyTrail@cs.com writes: > +More > > Tell 'em, "Look, we can't pad the corners of the world"! > > > > Might I hazard a guess this person is in California? Three months was all > I > could stand of what has to be the most Orwellian state in the USA! > Nope, Florida. I call them the Florida Taliban. Linda

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