Sassy's Garden 2002

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology
or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator,
and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any
more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with
our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision
of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.
- Louise Beebe Wilder

This is the reason I garden. Even weeds are a pleasure in my garden. It's a time when nothing else matters and life is simply. This garden is three years old now and next year will be the year I can really shape it. Replace and move plants around to ensure proper placement and color balance.

Cares melt when you kneel in your garden.

This is the pond we put in this year. After two different holes and three times redoing the waterfall it is ALMOST where I want it to be. Once the plants mature and fill in, it will be just as I pictured it in my mind. Gardening has taught me one thing, all good things take time. We don't have fish in it yet, we need to treat the water and get the plants going first.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.
- Lafcadio Hearn

We added this flower bed this year also. I had to take down my trellis to make room for the pond. I gave it to my brother along with some old cedar fence post I had, and a few design ideas. Didn't he do an awesome job? Once I painted it to match the house it seems to fit right in. Now all we need is to have the trees around the property line mature and we will have our own little secret garden to run away too.

Gardeners are - let's face it - control freaks. Who else would
willingly spend his leisure hours wresting weeds out of the ground,
blithely making life or death decisions about living beings, moving
earth from here to there, changing the course of waterways? The
more one thinks about it, the odder it seems; this compulsion to
remake a little corner of the planet according to some plan or vision.
- Abby Adams, What is a Garden Anyway

(Posted 6/27/02)

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