For whatever reason, my record for seed starts is terrible. It’s not unusual for the “hardening off” process to kill off whatever has made it that long. Sometimes, there is one sad survivor that lives to tell the tale and remind me that I’m responsible for the massacre. This year, we are trying to buck the odds!
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To little kids who are just starting to understand that there aren’t always happy endings, the idea of someone endowed with more than the normal ability to make things okay is pretty comforting. Letting them pretend to be the super hero allows them to identify themselves as the character in the story who can solve problems- and there is no better way for them to see themselves.
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Spring took its sweet time this year, and now that it has arrived, it seems to be working by my personal motto: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. We had weeks of snow and drear and no flowers and now everything is arriving in the same week. Cherry blossoms, redbud trees, cup & saucer magnolias, daffodils, periwinkle, and forsythia are just a few. Sort of supports the theory that our late spring will also be short, as we move directly into summer. I hope you are also having beautiful weather and that you are able to make the most of it this weekend!
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But as we’ll inevitably have a drought by summer’s end, if you’re coming, come to stay. We’ve had quite the stormy weekend, and all I can say is… apparently that …
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In the garden as in life: Give food, water, shelter, and room to grow. Remember that this year’s disappointments may bring about next year’s successes. Enjoy the exuberance, and let go when it’s time. Leave room for surprises. These things, I can cultivate. Actual plants, well. I don’t know about that.
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It’s that gardening time of year, but everything is buried under snow and ice. So there’s only one thing for it… it’s time to bust out The Pretend Garden. That’s when I read garden catalogs, decide where I will plant 500 plants this year, plan hideously ridiculous and/or impossible hardscapes, and just generally let loose. But this year, I have an actual project planned that I would have started on already if it weren’t for all this late snow we’ve had.
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