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looking over goY

Posted on 1 Mar, 2008 1 comment

Posting pictures is fun but looking at other folks pic’s is more fun.

Everytime I get to feel like I’ve learned a lot…I see pics of other gardens and it makes me realize just how much there is to know…
that’s why this group is such a positive thing…we all have our levels and areas of expertise…and it’s great to learn and share.

I wish I could give my garden my complete and exclusive attention but it’s just not to be… too many irons in the fire. the first order of business in my garden this year will be soil amendments and composting..I want to build a new arbour and finish the brick work on my pond wall. Would like to plant more bulbs..tulips, alliums etc. for more early spring colour. But first and foremost I have to find a source of uncomposted horse manure… want to make a hotbed next fall. Composted cow stuff is what I need to amend my composted veggie material. I’ve bought a mulch mower for the grass and use it to shred the tree leaves that I saved from last fall. I spread that over my beds and cover it with new topsoil. The fallow part of my garden is the hardest to resist…but I am using this method to see what will thrive when left alone. gardens are a phenomena…I don’t want to be the garden god…I would prefer to be the garden caretaker. With nature at the helm I can relinquish all those urges to control and just let it all come into being. I know that this sounds mighty strange to most gardeners. Over the last few years I have seen glimpses of natural selection and where I let it take it’s course, I’ve seen true natural beauty emerge…Plants that I didn’t plant have contributed to my garden in many ways…some are shrubs, some are structural elements..like a crabapple tree that grew in among the echinacea I had planted…hiding there until it was tall enough to be obvious…It was there…voila..so I didn’t remove it…at first it wasn’t apparent exactly what specie it was, could have been a cherry, until it bloomed… hard to miss apple blossoms. The other arrivals were annuals…poppies, monarda, echinacea, sunflowers and once, petunias, that self seeded. It simplifies the garden story when the gardener only has to add the punctuation of an occasional vegetable exclamation point.
time to walk the dog… a bientot.

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