Accessible Gardening: Compassion For Physically Challanged Gardeners #13, 0 by lovemyhouse

lovemyhouse wrote:
last year was dramatic for me and family. my niece died, my brother died, my BIL lost his job, and my gentleman companion of six + years decided we should 'just be friends.' guess the effects waited until now to sneak up and clobber me. :-) feeling pretty depressed, too, at the moment. but all of you are right. keep moving, and keep busy, and i will be better a bit at a time. so i am happy that was able to make myself crawl out from under the covers last week to cover the annuals and containers right before that bad-for-here cold came down. most survived because of it and that helps motivate me to do a little more. got a garden catalog gift certificate for birthday. been considering a viburnum carlesii and/or a cytisus 'hollandia' (pink broom). the broom is supposed to be fairly drought tolerant, which is great for here, but the snowball bush reminds me of my great uncle albert and great aunt minnie's house. they always had mini hershey bars waiting for us when we visited. and we got to run around out front in and through the half dozen or so huuuuge snowball bushes while we ate them. for the memories of that one, i might be persuaded to water. :-)

here is the single pansy bloom on plant right now (have buds developing, though) tis a cheery color, even though it seems to have been lunch for something.