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To many gardeners, seed catalogues are the most accurate depiction we have of the Garden from which humans were expelled.

We have to stand still in a garden and listen to its rhythms, look for the signs and symbols and meanings, hear its utterances. We have to look down and up, notice the needles and the haystacks.

[Colchicums] are sort of like the nuts in my cookies... I don't think about them a lot, but I'd certainly miss them if they weren't there.

Low maintenance is for homeowners, not gardeners!

And though one has begun to search for signs of spring almost since January, and to receive them, like postcards sent on a long voyage to home, it is with the greening of the grass that spring has, finally, certainly arrived.

Getting rid of poor plants is as important as seeking out the best.