"About six years ago, like so many romantic gardening fools, I fell for it: The wildflower meadow. I don’t know whether it was the pictures on the seed packets, or the vision I had of myself, dressed all in white, strolling through an endless vista of poppies and daisies. Mama makes up her mind and other dangers of southern living 1st Vintage Books ed. Her uncle Jimbuddy may appall you with his knack. Her aunt Belle may take you to see her bellowing pet alligator. “A garden in a can,” the seed catalogs said. Welcome to the unique world of Bailey White. The pictures showed a scene of rolling hills and dales, an area about the size of Georgia and Alabama combined, covered solid as far as the eye could see with billowing drifts of lupine and phlox.īut I wasn't born yesterday. And shes pretty free with that walking stick, too. You can never be sure shes not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. I had been tricked by those pictures before. Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living, p.20, Da Capo Press 6 Copy quote When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention.
I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.
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