But there is one place where a person can make choices that will lead in a small way toward greater sanity in dealing with the natural order. That place is the private garden.
Allen LacyAn angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
Allen LacyI know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.
Allen LacyDemocracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
Allen LacyInsects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants are loaded with alkaloids so potent that they are the source of vincristine and vinblastine. These are drugs important in routines of chemotherapy for treating Hodgkin's disease and certain forms of leukemia.
Allen Lacy