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Working the soil brings me back to my own nature, as I now understand that tending a garden is the same as taking care of myself.

I will not say that your Mulberry trees are dead, but I am afraid that they are not alive.

A writer who gardens is sooner or later going to write a book about the subject--I take that as inevitable.

A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is the one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.

Marcescence is the retention of dead plant organs that normally are shed. It is most obvious in deciduous trees that retain leaves through the winter. Several trees normally have marcescent leaves such as oak (Quercus), beech (Fagus) and hornbeam (Carpinus).

. . . the difference between great daffodils and common ones is not so vast as one thinks in the first flush of excitement when one starts being serious about daffodils.