moving plants in for the winter
It’s 7:47 as I type and sun started going down nearly an hour ago, once again I found myself sitting in a dark shadow laden garden. Winter looms and autumn is in it’s full glory, like a super villian frost is on it’s way. No matter how I try to deny it, the days are shorter and the air is cooler. I look at my plants, my collection, my treasure and take a deep breathe in and sigh. I have never been so thouroughly astonished and and amazed by something like this, the plant world is a world of mystery, travel and love. If you ever have the unfortunate desire to get deeply involved with plants be prepared to loose it all, and gain it all at once. To move beyond the petunia garden and into a plant collector’s dilema is to venture into jungles deep, deserts scorched, and mountains tall and remote. Through one’s love and intrigue for plants strange and unusual one miraculously travels to places far beyond one man’s reach. Exotic gardens offers a plethera of new sights and smells. What is common in one place is unusual in another, unnatural bio diversity create combinations unfound anywhere else on earth. Where one plant would stand out as the jewel of the forest, in an exotic garden many jewels mix to make a treasure. A flower’s natural survival mechanism, beauty, offers a world of amazement to mankind in exchange for protection, food and love. Mesmerized the subdued gardener practically worships his crop and in exchange he is given a sense of well being and calm. A symbotic relationship man and plant co-exist to reach higher levels.
I spent much of the day contemplating which plants to move inside, which to bring to the greenhouse, and which to chance in my cold frame. I gave my house a deep clean and have begun bringing in the plants. A quick mist of water, a spray of safers and the Tetris game of fitting it all inside begins. Although I should have spent my weekend doing fun things I felt the inclination to clean. For some reason giving the house a deep clean has had an almost equal effect on my mind. I feel clean, my mind is at ease, so long clutter and dust, welcome to the living room jungle. I think I might have too many plants. Oops.
