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Download A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season Android

Read more By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how to and ‘woo woo’ motto derives. On the second half of that equation, I think of my garden and myself as the two main components of the same organism. That perspective makes me think about the gardening year as roughly parallel to the six seasons of my own life, from conception through birth and on to youth, adulthood, senescence, and finally death and afterlife. Moving from phase to phase

Read more By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the deepest stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how to and ‘woo woo’ motto derives. On the second half of that equation, I think of my garden and myself as the two main components of the same organism. That perspective makes me think about the gardening year as roughly parallel to the six seasons of my own life, from conception through birth and on to youth, adulthood, senescence, and finally death and afterlife. Moving from phase to phase

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Read more By becoming a gardener, I accidentally—blessedly—landed myself

in a fusion of science lab and Buddhist retreat, a place of nonstop learning and

of contemplation, where there is life buzzing to the maximum and also the

deepest stillness. It is from this combined chemistry that my horticultural how

to and ‘woo woo’ motto derives. On the second half of that equation, I think of

my garden and myself as the two main components of the same organism.

That perspective makes me think about the gardening year as roughly parallel

to the six seasons of my own life, from conception through birth and on to

youth, adulthood, senescence, and finally death and afterlife. Moving from

phase to phase takes months or years (if all goes well) in the case of a human

in the garden, it’s all packed into a single year, and then starts over, and over,

even long after the gardener is gone. —Margaret Roach Read more This must

have guide shares decades of garden knowledge Gardening with ornamental

plants Growing vegetables and fruit Designing for four seasons Attracting birds

and beneficial insects Read more Praise and Acclaim for A Way to Garden

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