May is my favourite month. The lanes become green again, the garden springs to life and I begin forget how much I hate mud.
I am trying to learn how to be a gardener and each year is a definite improvement on the last, but there are still either big gaps or too much stuff in one place, so this year I am planting nothing at all. I'm just going to hang in there and see what comes up - or seeds itself - or whatever. A thoroughly tended garden is not for me - so we're going for more of a slightly controlled wilderness type of a look.
However - this is a bit too wilderness/ scrapyard - even for me! I plan to plant some veges in it this summer and then decide what to do with it when the builders ( who aren't here yet) leave. That'll be next summer then . . .
I am trying to learn how to be a gardener and each year is a definite improvement on the last, but there are still either big gaps or too much stuff in one place, so this year I am planting nothing at all. I'm just going to hang in there and see what comes up - or seeds itself - or whatever. A thoroughly tended garden is not for me - so we're going for more of a slightly controlled wilderness type of a look.
However - this is a bit too wilderness/ scrapyard - even for me! I plan to plant some veges in it this summer and then decide what to do with it when the builders ( who aren't here yet) leave. That'll be next summer then . . .
I think I might be embacing the controlled wilderness look too - more by necessity than design, but there you go.
Posted by: Ali | May 30, 2008 at 08:06 AM
O Katy, those photos are wonderful..and yes, I'm someone who likes to check in from time to time. But I know what you mean about letting things happen naturally...sometimes yards like this seem bigger than Ben-Hur. I dealt with one for 5 years, though I loved it so much too.
Posted by: Amy | June 02, 2008 at 02:53 PM