There&amp;#8217;s politics, and there&amp;#8217;s foliage. One&amp;#8217;s about nurture, one&amp;#8217;s about nuttiness. I&amp;#8217;m a New Yorker, &amp;#8220;pave it, don&amp;#8217;t prune it&amp;#8221; kind of guy. But for the last couple of months, for several hours a week, I&amp;#8217;ve been forced to take a hose to outdoor potted plants. (Wait! I water the bloody plants, I don&amp;#8217;t BEAT [...]