On the plus side, the garden looks kind of good right now. At like 18:17 on 2 July 2011. RIGHT NOW.
Had some epiphanies over the last two days of gardening craziness. 1) What I want, I can't have. There is no such thing as maintenance free. Was not emotionally prepared to accept/understand this until now. 2) This yard is too big for me to maintain as currently envisioned. I think that some kind of systemic poison is the answer. 3) Slave labor gets stuff done. 4) I love putting plants in the ground SO MUCH that moving around the same plant 6 times in a day is pretty reasonable and fun.
This was the side garden last year:
I was pretty proud of how this looked last year. But the rubbish that the bamboo was throwing down was just out of control. The Bromeliads were just not right for the site. So now it looks like this:
Things change. I always forget that. A year just flew by; children grew up, plants got taller, things died, new things sprouted. Tuck was right, change, growth, decay - it's how it's supposed to be.
Had some epiphanies over the last two days of gardening craziness. 1) What I want, I can't have. There is no such thing as maintenance free. Was not emotionally prepared to accept/understand this until now. 2) This yard is too big for me to maintain as currently envisioned. I think that some kind of systemic poison is the answer. 3) Slave labor gets stuff done. 4) I love putting plants in the ground SO MUCH that moving around the same plant 6 times in a day is pretty reasonable and fun.
This was the side garden last year:
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| Hogwire - how quaint, how naive. |
I was pretty proud of how this looked last year. But the rubbish that the bamboo was throwing down was just out of control. The Bromeliads were just not right for the site. So now it looks like this:
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| Things are a little bigger, a little more to the left. |
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