Felder Rushing, The Slow Gardener

Some people like their yards to be nothing but a lawn, as manicured as the 12th green at Augusta National.

Others, like North Carolinan (if that's a word) Felder Rushing, have a higher tolerance for a little more variety.

Appropriating the term from the slow food movement, Rushing is preaching slow gardening these days: lo-fi, modest in scale and making use of all sorts of wacky junk most people do not associate with a garden.

He's also a radio host of a show called The Gestalt Gardener on National Public Radio.

http://the-gestalt-gardener.blogspot.com/

As you get older, the world sometimes seems to be divided between organized and disorganized people, and the organized people get all the year-end bonuses, (at least they did until year-end bonuses became little acts of economic treason).

Nice to see there's a third way: slow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/garden/26slow.html?pagewanted=1&em