rudbeckia

Sometimes survival in compost piles has a way of glorifying a plant you thought you hated.

There are two difficulties with ground covers: first to get them to grow, and then to get them not to.

Despite these losses and setbacks, like King Sisyphus, gardeners forever keep rolling that rock up the hill, convinced we are progressing toward the day it will stay in place up there and not roll back on us, the day our gardens will be just as we want them.

To visit a garden properly is a demanding business; most visitors simply don't have the time.