| Garden planning is an avocation that can be carried to | | | | windy overcast days,Can precipitate severe |
| extremes. I have heard rumors that there are | | | | gardening withdrawal, fits or even swoons may |
| actually places that pay people to plan gardens for | | | | follow. I think it is probably akin to those heavy snow |
| them. No one would be that silly. Imagine being paid | | | | days in the north.The kind that cause cabin fever. |
| to do something that is well, an obsession. | | | | Give me a cup of coca and a couple garden catalogs, |
| Personally I have perfected garden planning. It is | | | | and I am happy. Burpees catalog another favorite of |
| considered high art when I undertake flower garden | | | | mine is the white flower farms catalog. |
| design! I post do not disturb "genius at work" signs in | | | | I won't even mention what awaking to a frost with a |
| preparation. Pictures of flower garden ideas drift like | | | | temperature of 20 degrees will do to you if you |
| colors in your mind. Formal gardens, whimsical | | | | garden in Florida. Living in paradise I consol myself |
| gardens, oriental gardens, rock gardens.All the garden | | | | with knowing that in a few weeks summer will arrive. |
| types you can dream of are at your fingertips, if not | | | | Then I will of course be nattering about heat and |
| actually in your yard! Somehow the Royal Botanical | | | | sweating in the summer. |
| Gardens at Kew come to my mind as a attainable | | | | I actually plan flower gardens on paper; I draw them |
| garden goal. Better homes and gardens has a | | | | out, several hundred dozen times. Of course I always |
| wonderful tool to help you plan layouts and colors. | | | | find a reason to change this or that, depending on |
| better homes and gardens flower garden planner. It's | | | | catalog advice, which direction the wind is blowing |
| a fun way to spend a blustery afternoon. | | | | and whether or not it's a full moon. Great bargains |
| Planning the layout and textures of gardens is very | | | | can be found if your patient. Then I throw the |
| diverting. I can spend hours making lists from the | | | | flower garden layout ideas in the trash and start |
| garden catalogs. These usually arrive just in time to | | | | buying what's on sale at the flea markets. Gardening |
| take my mind off of winter. Winter is relative after | | | | is always good. |
| all. In Florida the land of sunshine, just a few grey | | | | |