November 2008
The biggest crocuses are also excellent for gardeners who fear they are themselves getting almost too refined to breathe.
It is a great joy the day we discover that we can learn things without having to make the mistake ourselves.
Sometimes survival in compost piles has a way of glorifying a plant you thought you hated.
Gardening is only a refined form of gambling, after all. Sometimes the odds are fearfully against us; sometimes we win; but once the passion seizes us we are the victims of its fascination for life.
You can't grow what you don't have, even if it won't grow when you have it.
