Having decided to open my garden this year, I very purposefully walked through the entire garden with notebook in hand to list all the chores, pending projects and wish list items I wanted to accomplish before the targeted date. I made a separate list for my gardener helper, who I can only afford once or twice a month for a few hours at a time. The lists made the whole thing less overwhelming, and actually pretty exciting. I would feel a great sense of accomplishment, and have a wonderful garden to share with everyone. Open Garden is scheduled for late July. Given that we are all under shelter-in-place orders due to the pandemic, and we will likely still be practicing social distancing, and I may even have to cancel the open garden, I plan to proceed as if the world will figure out how to be well in the next two months...(this is the outlook of an optimist who listens to birdsong every day now instead of the news.)
No sooner had I begun the list when "opportunities" arose that I couldn't refuse. Clumps of perennials from friends, continue to arrive, two tons of basalt flagstone from another friend who was was removing it to install new paths in her garden. Then there was the realization that certain trees and shrubs, long planted in huge pots needed to be re-potted or homed permanently in the garden, or put up for adoption. When spring growth began, other trees and shrubs and perennials blatantly cried out..."move me too!" or at least, "prune me!". Adding these items to the ever growing do list of course means re-prioritizing. The bottom of the list becomes more remote. When will I ever get to the campground and the wilderness beyond?
Well, every journey begins with the first step.
Project A, three years in the planning, two years in the making, this
is installation spring.
Terrace One: Replace the lawn with shrubs and easy to sustain perennials.
More on this soon.
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