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But gardening is the art of the frustratingly imaginable, of triumph against ridiculous odds, and even rock-gardeners, devoted to the cult and cultivation of the nearly-invisible, must sometimes dream grandiosely.
Sometimes survival in compost piles has a way of glorifying a plant you thought you hated.
Like longtime parents, longtime gardeners learn when to fret and when to shrug.
Like longtime parents, longtime gardeners learn when to fret and when to shrug.
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.
