Why is it that most gardeners I’ve ever met focus the shortcomings in their own gardens, rather than focusing on the overall beauty? I am no exception to this. If someone pays me a compliment about my garden, I can’t get over the messy borders of my English border, or the potted flowers that aren’t quite right, or the ugly area of the garden that needs some kind of ground cover solution (do we all have ugly parts of our gardens?), or the areas that have dirt patches that should be planted with something.
And, to be clear, I do have projects I need to undertake in my garden which I will be starting this fall. Adjusting the borders, removing a plant bed that is not getting enough sun to grow the flowers that were originally put in the beds, and finally adding that ground cover to the dirt area adjacent to our parking area – much needed.
But this post is dedicated to the pretty parts of my garden I have today, knowing that no garden is ever going to be perfect and that gardening is not truly about perfection anyway :). Maybe one day I’ll realize that…
