So far, so good

One workweek in and I have n’t killed anything yet . This is a good sign . I ca n’t say there were n’t some close calls : Rudbeckia foliage break easily , and I am an oafish fumbler even when I am not wear gardening gloves . I am also on the prominent side , and I tend to step on plant life as I work among them . hear a newly planted‘Cherokee Sunset’under my shoe , I let out a 3/4 of an swearword . This caused my six - year - honest-to-goodness daughter , who had hidden herself in the foliage of a magnolia about five yards away , to postulate innocently , “ Son of a what , Daddy ? ”

When it comes to horticulture skill , all occasions do inform against me . I have already told you of my deficiency of grace . My planting seance also had me deal with my inability to not plant in square line . judge as I might to stagger my planting holes , when I step back , all I see are rowing . Sure I implant the individuals from myBluestone Perennial3 - camp in triangles . But one Triangulum next to another turned into a twain of straight lines .

I also am a terrible garden record keeper . This labor requires me to know what is planted where , when it blooms , and so on . As I was planting , I was smart enough to make a crude pencil drawing on a charge envelope of what run where , but now I do n’t eff where that bit of gasbag is . Of course I put the tag end with the flora , but I would n’t put it past one of my children , in a explosion of kindliness , to pick up all of those white things messing up Daddy ’s garden .

If anyone is reading this , please remind me to make another diagram before it is too late .

Notes :

genus Rudbeckia are native to the prairie , so that is my self-justification for not watering them .

All plant did get a dainty mulch of leaf modeling .

I predict that I have another two hebdomad before I start out get raring for blooms .

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