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Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.

And we learned this important lesson: Never, ever plant anything that is supposed to look like something else. It won't.

It is not a bad thing for plants to express individualism. Not everyone can be a marigold.

But along the way we really do learn that marigolds gain enormously in impact when used as sparingly as ultimatums.

Even when the future [garden] design is still just a matted clump of dormant perennial roots, it is in our mind's eye the perfect exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.