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It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
I am all for playing rough with things [i.e., plants] that play rough with us, and for making them behave as our servants, not our masters.
Gardening may be the most exasperating occupation under the sun, but it gives as much as it gets--no more no less. Life in a garden is one long war with the powers of Evil, but the victory is worth winning. Maddening catastrophes are followed by spectacular triumphs. One minute you are flat on your face, and the next you are soaring on the wings of the morning.
Men with trucks do not see new plantings when reversing or unloading, so trees must wait [to be planted] until all hard landscaping is done.
The trouble with master plans in gardens, then, is simply that they do not take into account masterful plants. Nor addled masters.
Not everyone has the personality to have a public farm.
