Lighten Up!
Good Morning!
I recently read an article about a neighborhood “Best Kept Yard” contest that got ugly when the winner was accused of cheating by his own neighbors. It got me to thinking that we gardeners tend to take our gardens so seriously that we forget to enjoy them. Let’s face it, most of us will never have the kind of gardens you see in glossy magazines. You know the ones, where every flower is perfectly in bloom, never wilted, every leaf is shiny and green, every blade of grass velvety, and ever bush stylishly trimmed. Here in the real world there is a brown patch or two on the lawn, the petunias need to be deadheaded again, and that hydrangeas got some dead leaves. It happens. For every perfect, red and juicy tomato there’s one with blossom end rot, and for every fragrant, exquisite rose, there’s one the Japanese Beetles got to first.
Every year I lose a plant or two. Last year it was my cucumbers to late blight. This year it looks like they’ve got it again, but my beans and peppers are thriving. The marigolds need deadheading and my rose bush is still recovering from the damage the powerwashers did to it, but my little garden still brings me great pleasure-and isn’t that why we garden anyway?
The moral of the story is, don’t get so caught up in keeping up with the Joneses or getting that perfect tomato that you forget to enjoy and appreciate the joy that is a garden!
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