trail_maintenance

Every spring offers another chance to undo the damage done by winter and finally get the garden right.

But gardeners do not dwell too long on catastrophe. Failure is an accepted part of daily life and we value our successes the more.

I am very fond of the Spring-flowering colchicums, but unfortunately slugs are also, and those greedy gastropods and I have a race for who can see the flower-buds first. If I win I go out after dark with an acetylene lamp and a hatpin and spear the little army of slugs making for a tea party at the sign of the Colchicum.