The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 2nd, 1997
To an outsider, unfamiliar with horticultural lingo, gardeners must sound like a rather aggressive lot: nicking, pinching and forcing are just some of the ways we manipulate plants.
The fact is that no gardener can force a plant to do something it isn't inclined to do. We can plant it in places it wouldn't normally occur, or coax it into blooming a tad early or late but that hardly constitutes a show of force in my book.
A lovely pot of lily of the valley, blooming on the windowsill in winter, seems the antithesis of aggression. Yet, this gentle process, called "forcing," is as easy as garde...
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