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| Salvia greggii |
All my garden plans have been canceled, and while I am coping one long day at a time and this will all be over by the end of summer, I just felt so sad and abandoned and I asked A.I. to say something calming to me about it.
This is what the stupid computer came up with -- as part of a longer and quite soothing conversation about coping.
While you can’t be out there digging or pruning, this is a unique window to observe your garden’s architecture from a distance.
Gardens aren't just about the work we put into them; they are about the life that happens when we aren't interfering.
I read that again. I think I cried.
Gardens aren't just about the work we put into them; they are about the life that happens when we aren't interfering.
That is what I need to cultivate in my mind every day for the next three months. I am forced not to interfere in any way. The garden will get watered, and I'll get some help to tidy things up later in spring, but otherwise it will grow without me. All season. I can't get the scooter down off the elevated patio to trim the vine (which needs it badly every week) or to deadhead anything.
It will become untidy and some things will fail, the emitters don't reach every plant and this is a tough environment. I'll watch it happen. I won't have a clean look or be able to save the failures. But some things will survive. Some parts will grow.
The garden will change without me.