Fruit
The two most mysterious aspects of clematis are, How is the word pronounced? and, What is its plural form? Once these questions are answered, growing the plants is plain sailing.
Working the soil brings me back to my own nature, as I now understand that tending a garden is the same as taking care of myself.
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
The garden is not only an ornamental place, but a habitat and a civilization.
Snowdrops provide the intermezzo between winter and spring.
No real garden should ever show bare earth, much less a sea of bark mulch, which always represents both an opportunity lost and a failure of horticultural seriousness.
In a lot of ways, I'm just hitting my stride, just a little more tired while striding.
But here experience speaks: never be too far away from man or machine until the sweep of the last [Bobcat] blade, for those who have watched these men at work will know about the amazing interpretations of a plan that can occur.
Roses are at their best trailing down in graceful trusses. In fact, they are like supermodels--the goods just look better displayed on tall, thin, limbs.
April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
Low maintenance is for homeowners, not gardeners!
That's why it's good to have family or old friends. They keep you from becoming a prisoner of your own obsessions. The world is wide, there are other pleasures in it besides gardening, and sometimes we gardeners just need to have that pointed out to us.
