There's no "right way" to garden, only what suits each person and place.

Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.

Be pleased with your real garden, don't persue the perfection of a picture. What you see in a photo lasted only as long as the shutter snap.

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.