Northeast Gardening: Plant collector or garden designer? , 1 by docgipe

docgipe wrote:
Very interesting thread. At seventy one and counting my desire for design has migrated into maintenence of design features from days gone by.

What seems important today is finding ways to let the riding mower ease into and around as much as possible. More importent is finding and keeping a good helper to chase out the unforgiving relentless weeds and rebuild the mulch levels.

I have earned the right to sit and plan a lot while doing nothing but tweeking a bit here and there to avoid the creation of more work. This is indeed a hard job for me because my ego wants it all done yesterday, now and more. I am now mentally designing scooter or wheel chair cartways so that I may continue to tinker as long as possible.

The pix is a purple millett planting. This is to me a most interesting texture, size, color and bird food plant that few have grown because it is relatively new. This planting replaced a wild unmanageable willow my florist talked me into planting. That was one of my unmentionalbe mistakes. It's all in and done. Amen.