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If your garden is gorgeous in winter, it is gorgeous all year.
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The Garden In Winter, by Rosemary Verey is perhaps the best Garden Design book.
Pic, above, from my previous garden. 30 years, creating a cottage garden. Moved no plants/field stone/bricks when I left last May, only brought focal points & potted plantings & 7 large quartz stones. Weeks later, seeing the pile of cottage garden 'stuff' at our ca. 1900 American farmhouse I knew it was inappropriate. Beloved had his large work truck and 5 of his men on site, I let them gather 2 truckloads for the thrift store. I stood and pointed and watched the bits/pieces making up a garden seen on TV, in magazines/books, tours, drift away. Bits/pieces that made up my life. Nothing to be done but take swift action. Impossible to live a new life chapter, dragging past chapters.
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The view, above, is now all lawn.
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Christopher Lloyd said, The garden dies when the gardener dies.
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Because money was nonexistent during early decades at my cottage garden I volunteered at garden symposiums, to get inside free. Wildly, it was Providence placing me where I should be. How else to have had lunch & traipse gardens with Christopher Lloyd when he came to lecture, how else to have had lunch & traipse gardens with Rosemary Verey when she came to lecture?
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Garden & Be Well, XO T