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Here We Go Again...
You know, it's been a long time since I've shown you all a long shot of one of my plantings - shame on me! I just get so caught up in plant beauty shots... and, to be frank, the ole garden hasn't been herself lately...
Front Garden : "There you go again, talking smack about me!"
Germinatrix : "I'm not talking smack, I'm just letting people know that every garden has a little slump -"
FG : "Slump! Slump? Look at all the other front yards during winter! Nothing! Nada! I try so hard for you...
Germi : "Okay, let's not get into this in front of everybody."
FG : "Are you trying to shut me down?! I have a voice! I matter! What kind of a relationship is this if you constantly silence me?"
Germi : "You are my Front Garden! You are so visible! I'm always putting images of you on the blog..."
FG : "Not as much as Back Garden."
Germi : "Oh, come on. You're being a little nit picky, now. I mean, what do you want from me?"
FG : "I think we need to go into counseling."
Germi : "You have GOT to be kidding me!"
FG : "See? You never take me seriously! I'm just the "Front Yard"... people just pass through me on the way into the house, and then where do they end up - in the Back Garden! You don't even call it 'Back Garden'! You call it THE Garden!"
Germi : "You are so hypersensitive."
FG : "Stop telling me what I am!"
Germi : "Anyway, there is no such thing as couples therapy for a gardener and her garden."
FG : "Well there should be! I've gotta go - I have some blooming to do - not that you'd notice..."
Germi : "Wait a minute - I just put up a shot of the Beschornia the other day!"
FG : "Talk to the hand."
Heavy sigh. Does anybody else have this kind of a situation with their gardens or is it just me? Maybe there SHOULD be therapy for gardeners!
Hmmm. Well, I always thought there was nothing wrong when gardeners talk to their plants. The real problem lies with, well, when the plants start talking back.
Couples therapy for you two may be a bit premature. Maybe individual counseling at first - maybe just a garden coach.
Nice Beschornia.
Jim/ArtofGardening.org
Hi Jim! Do I dare thrust a well meaning garden coach in the middle of this back and forth? I could see me and my front yard (oops - I called her a 'yard', now I'll NEVER hear the end of it) ganging up on anyone who tries to help. I think we may be stuck with each other!
I've got to take more close ups of the Beschornia - I've never had two bloom spikes at once!
I had this EXACT conversation with the front yard last year. I paid a little extra attention to her, now the back yard has started complaining. I'm ready tell the both of them to shove it and take up knitting, which my gardens should note, I can do while watching Lost. Some days I think anyone considering gardening should automatically sign up for therapy!!
Wicked, I'm sure the back garden is going to start in soon ... just when "FG" gets her late spring bloom going. I'm glad to know other people have dysfunctional relationships with their gardens, if only so I won't be alone in the world! I wonder, is there such thing as a 'functional' relationship with a garden? Where you feel you are on top of everything you need to do, and the garden is nicely taken care of? My poor front garden really does get the scraps of my attention. She has a right to be bitter - she needs some love.
You know, knitting hasn't helped me ... the expensive yarn I haven't touched for over a year has started making grumbling noises at me...
Oy, the yarn is talking to you too? Maybe you have deeper problems than I thought . . .
I am SOOOOO behind in my gardens. My pool garden, which was my crown jewel a few years ago, is now a complete mess. I've been so busy this year, and the garden has suffered. Its almost overwhelming.
Well, Wicked, I haven't started talking back to the yarn - my one saving grace ... but if I wrote a knitting blog I'm sure I'd have written a three act play full of dramatic confrontations.
I hear you loud and clear! The busier I get with other people's gardens, the more mine suffers. I feel guilty! I am vowing to make more time to address my big re-design issues. We can make a pact to garden more, and to not feel guilty if life gets in the way ... how does that sound?
Its a deal, although I'll probably still feel guilty.