{"id":16766,"date":"2011-05-05T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16766"},"modified":"2015-08-09T17:23:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T21:23:55","slug":"missing-boxwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=16766","title":{"rendered":"Missing Boxwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

House on the corner. Famous in the neighborhood for at one time housing local band the Cold War Kids<\/a> and their legendary late-night poker parties. Bare, packed earth, a memory of lawn haunting the hardscrabble front yard. A single boxwood sphere, the lone relic of a bygone garden, managed to eke out a rotund, dense, and surprisingly healthy existence near the foundation in spite of such malevolent neglect, and always had a cheering effect on me as I turned the corner into my street. I often thought of asking permission to dig it up, since no one seemed to care anyway, and over the years — at least 20 years that I know of, but possibly quite a few more — it had managed to grow under such lean and spiteful conditions into a beautiful, tight green orb, about 4X4. Today, after years of inattention, a new landscape was installed, possibly signaling a change in landlords, and guess what got the boot? Yep, that boxwood sphere that defied the odds for so many years was scrapped, cast aside in a broken heap. I nearly piled into an oncoming car as I turned that corner coming home from work last night to find the cheerful survivor struck down. Damn, I should’ve asked.
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