While this advice is for the garden you have, she also discusses the ultimate decision: Is it time to sell the home with the garden you have lived in and loved for 50 years and move into a home with lower maintenance needs? Her solutions included replacing parts of the perennial border with shrubs to create a shrub border reducing the number of different species in the perennial borders that remained, leaving only those plants that have attractive foliage as well as flowers and require less maintenance and accepting that the garden will be less than perfect. While the subtitle emphasizes the age of the gardeners, many of the labor-saving tips work equally as well for fully fit and active younger adults whose gardening time is limited by busy careers and the duties of raising a family.Įddison opens with a condensed version of how she and her husband, who died in 2005, began their Connecticut garden in 1961 and over the years expanded it, always adding more plants and, with them, more work.Īlthough she had in recent years hired help in her garden, as her husband lost energy from what turned out to be terminal cancer, she realized that she could no longer maintain the garden as she had been.
“Founding Gardeners” was published by Alfred A. When Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis to explore the Missouri River after the Louisiana Purchase, part of his mission was to observe “the soil & face of the country, it’s growth and vegetable productions” and to note “the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower, or leafs.” Yes, he wanted the Missouri River explored, perhaps a passage to the Pacific found, but the plants were equally important. That trip is reported to have helped forge a compromise. When tensions rose during the Constitutional Convention, a group of delegates, including Madison and Alexander Hamilton, went to the nursery of John and William Bartram, where Washington and Jefferson had purchased many of their trees. Washington and Jefferson regularly had visitors to their estates who wanted to see how they had created stunning landscapes out of American trees.
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