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History is everything in gardening: With a site, weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why, when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest certainty that you can.
We think we learn by growing a plant but we can't know if it's just surviving or truly living? We really don't know anything about a plant until we kill it.
I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots.
When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.
Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.
Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.
Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.
Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.
The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.
Watch out for trees and traffic.
The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.
Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!
Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.
Gardeners in regions with very long summer days have a great opportunity, and should use more of the cool colors that literally glow in the low light of morning and evening.
You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.
Low care is what we do while on our knees. Smart care is what makes the growing easier.
Take care with manufactured chemicals, certainly. Your safety and long term health are more important than anything. Yet don't forget that if you grow even a dozen different plants, you are surrounded by chemistry. Inside their cells even the most ordinary plants creates potent fungicides, insecticides, irritants, balms, hallucinogens, sedatives, nerve toxins, cell repair stimulants, lures, repellents ... you name it. Treat all plants with respect!
The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.
