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Garden Articles
I grew up in Southern California where I spent most of my time outdoors in our small green yard with its avocado tree, ferns, camellias, and carpet of lush St. Augustine grass. Across the stree from home, tucked into a triangle of land left over when a freeway off-ramp was installed, my dad had a lovely multi-season vegetable and fruit garden with orange, lemon, lime, kumquat, peach, and apricot trees, as well as tidy vegetable rows, a giant lavender bush, and a row of roses. Moving to the east coast was a very difficult transition for me, primarily because of the loss of my garden havens and beautiful outdoor-friendly weather. There's nothing more restortive than time in a garden, even if you're just weeding, raking, or turning the compost pile. I've learned that you can create a garden anywhere, and each spring, I approach the task with renewed enthusiam. A garden can be a few containers on a sunny windowsill or balcony, a group of raised beds filled with fluffy organic soil, or row after row of vegetables and fruit. If you've never gardened, I hope you'll start small and try something. There really is joy in being outdoors in a garden. Enjoy! A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. -Gertrude Jekyll Index of Garden Articles
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognized by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. -Ian Hamilton Finlay
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