Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Monday, March 28, 2005
Damp and Dismal
It has been raining more or less all day. We just had a thunderstorm that briefly knocked out the electricity. The backyard is as flooded as I've ever seen it. Just now lightning is starting again.
So....no gardening today. My last two 'Hatsu Arashi' morning glories have germinated. That's 100% germination for those, but only 20% for 'Fujimusume' and 40% for 'Milky Way'.
My very favorite gardening book, in the chapter titled "The Gardener's March", contains the following:
When your watch stops, you pull it to pieces and then take it to the watchmaker; if somebody's car stops, he turns up the bottom of his overcoat and sticks his fingers in the machinery and then sends to the garage. With everything in the world it is possible to do something, but against weather nothing can be done. No zeal, no ambition, no newfangled methods, no meddling or cursing is of any use; the germ opens and a sprout comes up when it is time, and a law has been accomplished. Here you are humbly conscious of the impotence of man; soon you will realize that patience is the mother of wisdom!
After all, nothing can be done.
Warm, pleasant weather is on the way.
1 Comments:
I just came back from taking a look at the Potomac--highest I have ever seen it, which surprises me. I didn't realize we'd had that much rain.
Here is a link to Oakes Daylilies. They are the best I've found--and I have lots of daylilies, one of my personal favorites.
http://www.oakesdaylilies.com/supplier/home.php?id=s000
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