Cold Climate Gardening

I just want you to know I am continuing my resolve to get stronger for gardening. You got that right–it’s not spring training, it’s training for spring!

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I myself would like to meet Death in the flower garden–falling facedown onto a cushion of Dianthus gratianopolitanus, if it’s not to much to ask. ~ Elisabeth Sheldon, Time and the Gardener : Writings on a Lifelong Passion

But last and best, I’d like to thank my grandmother Elizabeth McIver, long dead, who when told she must give up her gardening to lengthen her life, picked up her trowel and went to weed. ~ Joe Eck, Elements of Garden Design

I want to garden until the day I die, don’t you? Early in 1997 I pulled a packet of gardening postcard ads out of my mailbox. On the front cover was a photo of an old woman, the essence of “granny.” (Sorry I can’t show it to you; I was unable to obtain permission.) She had a mound of white curls piled atop her head, tied in place with a red bandana. Wearing a flowered smock, she faces the camera, hand pruners in one knuckle-swollen hand, and a big bunch of bachelor’s buttons in the other–and she’s smiling. In a flash I knew what I wanted my retirement to be like: gardening, gardening, and more gardening!

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