“You need to find gardening books that speak to your geographic area, your urban vs rural balance, your wildlife — basically everything that defines the natural and relatively unchangeable aspects of your garden. It does little good to read about “banking” your roses for Winter if the temperature never drops below 60 degrees. Conversely, reading about harvesting tropical fruits like bananas and papayas when you are snowed in can only lead to frustration.“
From A Gardener’s Notebook by Douglas E. Welch DouglasEWelch.com
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Previously from A Gardener’s Notebook:
- Friction
- High-tech/High-touch
- Connected Parks and Gardens…
- Parks in our own backyard…
- Reflection…
- There’s is a new movement afoot here to convert lawns into gardens, grass into vegetables…
- Lost and found…
- Sharing beauty as well as food…
- Garden Sharing: Not everyone has the time, space or ability to start their own gardens
- I am the epitome of the lazy gardener, but I must place some of the blame on my perennials
- I am a lazy gardener…
- The act of drawing itself is more important than the results…
- Drawing is seeing in your garden
- Mark out an area of your garden
- Your Garden – Inch-by-Inch
- Gardens can tell us a lot about ourselves, but we also end up communicating who we are to others through our gardens.
- Gardens can be beautiful or productive and are often both at the same time.