catmint

A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.

All of longtime gardeners are guilty of experiencing our own irrational, unprovable revelations about what works in the garden.

In my part of the country, there comes each year one long and occasionally fruitful season when gardening takes places strictly on paper and in the imagination.

I don't mean to complain about my own garden. It serves me and satisfies me quite well, except at the moments when I get into despair over it: very frequent moments, when I long to have some other sort of garden, quite different; a garden in Spain, a garden in Italy, a garden in Provence, a garden in Scotland.