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