Well what are plants if they aren't hothoused? Do good roses with wonderful scents, and great tomatoes with deep flavor grow out in a rough field with caterpillars and grasshoppers?

Good soil, warm summer sun, some weeding, some watering. All provided by a gardener that fusses and hovers.

The oppposite of hothousing is still in the category of gardening.

And lets get off this silly analogy anyways -- plants don't have parental care.

Polly