“If it is true that one of the greatest pleasures of gardening lies in looking forward, then the planning of next year’s beds and borders must be one of the most agreeable occupations in the gardener’s calendar. This should make October and November particularly pleasant months, for then we may begin to clear our borders, to cut down those sodden and untidy stalks, to dig up and increase our plants, and to move them to other positions where they will show up to greater effect. People who are not gardeners always say that the bare beds of winter are uninteresting; gardeners know better, and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth.”
- Vita Sackville-West
Great poems!
“...and take even a certain pleasure in the neatness of the newly dug, bare, brown earth.”
I do for a bit, but my straw was delivered yesterday so soon my garden will be a pile of golden straw and fallen Maple leaves and then snow! :)
I am SO looking forward to re-vamping every aspect of my garden over winter to make it easier on myself. I reached BURN OUT this past season, though some of that was the @#$%^&! WEATHER (way too much rain and then NO rain!) and some of it was hitting a milestone birthday, though yesterday my BFF told me I’ll always be 19 to her.
I am taking THAT to heart. :)