Garden Tweets
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.
We're all experts in the garden, right up until the moment that we're not. . . .Every single time you try a new crop or new variety or new plot, you risk failure. Even with the tried and true, a year of strange weather can make decades of experience meaningless.
Improbability is not a quality we value in landscapes.
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Like longtime parents, longtime gardeners learn when to fret and when to shrug.
Gardening at first felt like a natural pleasure, and then it became a necessary one.
. . . A bunch of daisies has a peculiarly earthy smell, especially when it comes as a hot little gift in the hand of a child.
To visit a garden properly is a demanding business; most visitors simply don't have the time.
Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
Speaking of extreme environments, garden-making in Greenland is said by gardeners there to require tamaviaartumik, Greenlandic for passion, ambition, and commitment.
The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing better than they have ever done before.
The garden and gardener have grown alongside each other over the years, each shaping the other.
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
