Having spent some time this morning moving some plants around the garden (the main side border has accidentally developed into a symphony of purple, pink and white and a red Salvia stood out like a sore thumb and had to be moved), I was reminded of two quotations in my Illustrated Gardener's Notebook.
Alan Titchmarsh says "Use the time to muse over your successes and failures, and jot them down, lest you forget. Plants to order. Plants to ditch. Plants to move, and plants to give away to those who've been wise enough to admire them".
H.E. Bates says "A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving but self-critical journey on the part of it's owner".
I'm just happy that anything grows at all and am constantly surprised when plants come into flower.
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