No matter how full your seed tras are, you always come up short on the transplants. Or you sow too many of one kind and not enough of another. OR STILL, you spill seeds or knock the tray over and get everything all mixed up.
Rules of Gardening...
No matter how careful and studied your garden plans were, your best gardens happen with "happy accidents." That's when you acquire a plant by chance and stick it in an available spot, and presto!! You have a lovely combo.
Your best plants are those that multiply rapidly, causing you to make friends with many other gardeners in giving them away!
When you are trying to be really careful with a plant, you WILL drop it!
Without a doubt.... or when it's been planted and just about to bloom, a tree branch will fall and crush it.
The rabbits in your neighborhood are very patient and clever bunnies... they wait until
your newest most expensive plant is finally ready to bloom and then.. they scarf it
down the the ground.
...When the danger of any rabbits munching on your plants is long gone--and I go to remove the plastic rabbit fencing---I CAN"T!
All the stems of the flowers have grown through the fencing and are blooming away on the outside of it. So, I have to put up with it......
The two most dreaded words that a gardener will hear are:
"Something happened."