folly
a garden building built primarily for visual effect: to "fool" the eye.
forcing
the practice of hurrying plants into flower or to produce fruit early by means of artificial conditions.
'Possum Folly
Every day this week, I've been watching a small opossum who's been happily waddling around my back yard and munching on the mulberries.
folly a garden building built primarily for visual effect: to "fool" the eye. frieze the central level of the entablature, often decorated with classical motifs in carving or molding.
follyA Folly is a garden structure which can be seen as a folly (by its owner or by visitors) because of its appearance, cost or lack of utility (eg a sham castle, an artificial ruin or a hermit's cell).
It might resemble a Victorian folly or a rustic arbor. For my cage, I pound 8-foot lengths of metal conduit into the ground, connect their tops with PVC pipe, and drape on the net. Any netting with 1-inch (or smaller) mesh works.
Applications of "the oyals" (that egrerious compound of folly, ignorance and brutality), follow the first appearance of lameness, and are made alike to the shoulder, the leg and the sole, under the various pretences of rheumatism, ...
There are major offenses, and there are minor transgressions. Of course, one man's crime is often another man's folly. If you don't believe me, just take a moment to consider lawn gnomes and juniper bushes.
My mason is cold hardy and promises a spring delivery. Unconventional, not foursquare but asymmetrical, the garden will take its lead from contour intervals and the lay of the land. Amy's folly? Or a hope-filled beginning, with a bit of whimsy.
 See also: Gardening, Plant, Flower, Water, Light
  
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