Left behind Gardens

Yes, it is hard to see one's hard work destroyed by new owners, but a good
idea to remember is the joy your garden gave you many passing by neighbors
and others.
One of my iris beds died out and I couldn't believe all the people who would
stop while I was out in the garden to tell me how much joy those 100
different colors gave them.
Just think you now have a new canvas to paint with plants and flowers.  I
feel every gardener is a artist.  I'm sure passer-bys have kept in their
minds my gardens.

But the best is my Grandchildren (as my own children aren't gardeners) when
they tell me that some day they will have a garden like mine as some live in
apartments.  My one granddaughter always makes me cards like a book with all
my flowers drawn on every page.  I had to leave some wonderful plants (which
I had rescued from very old homes which were being demolished).  Even to
this day I wonder if all those daffodils are in that back yard where I
transplanted them. Not much money to work with in those days so free plants
were just wonderful and a little cold frame worked magic.

I was a gardener at 12 years old and went by my childhood home.  The plants
I had rescued and my wild garden have escaped and the old garden was over
grown, but those little bulbs refuse to not stick out their heads.  How
lovely it was to see them in mass and to realize all the years that have
went by.  We lived in Germantown, Philadelphlia with lots of wonderful
Revolutionary homes.  The next door neighbor had a gardener who was from
England.  I would spend many a day looking into his well manicured garden
and saying, "I'm going to have a wonderful garden like this someday."  Well,
mine is not so manicured due to health, but reading all your e-mails has
gotten me to thinking about getting out this Spring to get my gardens back
in some order.  My phlox have self-seeded and have actually become a pest.
But the colors are just so beautiful I hate to cut them down.  So need to
make a holding bed and dig them up as they come up this Spring.

I remember a next door neighbor (as I lived in the city after I was married)
who was from England would bring her older friends in for tea and take them
to look over the fence and say, "looks like I'm back in England".  I'm sure
the new owners destroyed my garden, but perhaps not?  There actually wasn't
much money involved in that garden back then.

Now my canvas is different as my color schemes have changed with age and I
actually have different favorite colors now.   So perhaps moving can be a
greater experience in the realm of gardening.  Just keep in mind the joy of
your old garden.  I keep one book with my old gardens pictures in it.  Not
just for memories but for inspiration.

Happy gardening.

Kate
Zionsville, PA

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