Quote from Jeffrey Caldwell on Gardening With Natives discussion list: “ One of my favorite phrases I got from Judith Larner: "suburban plant junk" -- which pretty well describes the average or even most landscapes in suburban or urban areas. What I hate most are entire landscapes that require the production of a huge amount of air pollution to keep every plant hacked into unnatural shapes and sizes at frequent intervals. One of the world's most miserable jobs is to be producing as much air pollution as twenty Toyotas all day long, operating extremely noisy power edgers, lawn mowers, gasoline hedge trimmers and backpack blowers to maintain ugliness that is an ecological monstrosity every which way. An excessive amount of water is required to keep the growth going against the endless noisy hacking assault so that more waste can be trucked to the landfills!”