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Chances are, though, that once we get a garden looking just right and everyone tells us how perfect it is, we'll decide we want to take it apart and try something else or turn our attention to starting a brand new border from scratch. Maybe it doesn't make sense, but it doesn't really need to: It's just what we do.
For the uninitiated, the reality of what it takes to create and maintain a great-looking garden appears to be an endless string of tiresome tasks and dirty jobs. But true gardeners know that the real fun of gardening in in the process--the planning, the planting, the nurturing, and the learning.
If the garden was a secret and we could get into it we could watch the things grow bigger every day, and see how many roses are alive. Don't you see? Oh, don't you see how much nicer it would be if it was a secret?
The garden is not only an ornamental place, but a habitat and a civilization.
The secret of success in tidying up the garden is, simply, not to start new projects.
A writer who gardens is sooner or later going to write a book about the subject--I take that as inevitable.
Artichokes are no fools.
A writer who gardens is sooner or later going to write a book about the subject--I take that as inevitable.
