Reading this gives a beautiful form and rhythm to your 2023, with Asheville as bookends and seeing the whole growing season as you did - life in the middle can feel so aimless, but hindsight always gives more clarity and structure. To see the passage of time through plants and seasons is a gift - unless you’re a gardener or a farmer, it’s easy to lose sight of that nowadays.
Also I’m glad I read this before planting because I forgot which flowers didn’t like the summer heat here (although I probably wrote it down in my journal). I’m planting some more zinnias you gave me this year, and trying the cosmos early! Also I just bought some milkweed and bergamot for the backyard, and we have a house finch nest in our front porch and a Carolina wren nest in a decrepit watering can in the backyard!
I can't wait to see your garden and especially all the perennials in the front bed! I'm going to try to have extra seedlings to take to you all so fingers crossed they make it. :)
And the wren nest in the watering can is so sweet.
Fun to romanticize the vision of you lugging around David Austin Roses in pots around the country. I'm also romanticizing a cozy winter holed up watching YT gardening shows- can't wait for that post on your faves. Gardener's World just began their new season and I can't wait to hunker down and binge a few episodes.
Ha ha, it's not a romantic picture, believe me! So stressful. :)
Gardener's World is my very favorite--I try to watch them the weekend they come out before the BBC has them deleted off of people's Youtube channels, ha ha.
Reading this gives a beautiful form and rhythm to your 2023, with Asheville as bookends and seeing the whole growing season as you did - life in the middle can feel so aimless, but hindsight always gives more clarity and structure. To see the passage of time through plants and seasons is a gift - unless you’re a gardener or a farmer, it’s easy to lose sight of that nowadays.
Also I’m glad I read this before planting because I forgot which flowers didn’t like the summer heat here (although I probably wrote it down in my journal). I’m planting some more zinnias you gave me this year, and trying the cosmos early! Also I just bought some milkweed and bergamot for the backyard, and we have a house finch nest in our front porch and a Carolina wren nest in a decrepit watering can in the backyard!
I can't wait to see your garden and especially all the perennials in the front bed! I'm going to try to have extra seedlings to take to you all so fingers crossed they make it. :)
And the wren nest in the watering can is so sweet.
Great article…enjoyed it very much 😎🌺🌸🌷
Thanks, Anthe! <3
Fun to romanticize the vision of you lugging around David Austin Roses in pots around the country. I'm also romanticizing a cozy winter holed up watching YT gardening shows- can't wait for that post on your faves. Gardener's World just began their new season and I can't wait to hunker down and binge a few episodes.
Ha ha, it's not a romantic picture, believe me! So stressful. :)
Gardener's World is my very favorite--I try to watch them the weekend they come out before the BBC has them deleted off of people's Youtube channels, ha ha.