May 7, 2019 Deep Dives in the Garden, Gerard van Swieten, Rochester Parks Commission, RHS Radish Trial, Henry Teuscher, Bartram's Garden, Rabindranath Tagore, Penelope Lively, Life in the Garden, Garden Trials, and Charles Darwin

The Daily Gardener · May 7, 2019 · 9m

Deep dives.

Gardeners love to fall in love with particular plants.

We can fall so hard, that we tune out other possibilities for our gardens.

Then, in a fascinating twist, our deep dives can suddenly stop.

As is often the case, those deep dives can be followed by a pivot.

I started out as a shrub gardener. Then, I made a pivot to annuals and ornamentals and had nary a shrub in my garden.

Then I was anti-annual.

Then I moved into herbs and edibles.

Now I'm a little bit of everything.

Deep dives and pivots. Part of the process of growing a gardener.

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