le jardin

ok, so mm's garden, usually a source of solace has been a disappointment this season.........not for the current show of phlox, poppies, iris, money plant, iberis, etc, but for the cloud of doom that hangs over it and dampens my enthusiasm for improvements........the septic system contractor has not yet drawn the definitive plans for pipes, etc.....and so i do not know just which sections of established perennial beds will be utterly destroyed..........and thusly i just sit back and do nothing....no weeding, no mulching, no dreaming of plant movements that will enhance the color scheme. etc.........will i have to dig up rosa constance spry, or grandma broughton's old pink rose (my brother-in-law the rosarian thinks it might be called belladonna......) and if i do have to dip up constance's bed, there are 5 other roses in that bed that will also have to moved......and to where?.............not every part of my yard has enough soil depth to grow roses..............nor enough sunlight, etc.............the plans include running the lateral lines into the 'wood' lot that blocks our view of the neighbors..........there is not much soil depth there either....which means that fill dirt will have to be trucked in..............hopefully the wildflowers are numerous enough to prevent extinction if the lines and dirt end up on top of a few.........it is just the principle of the thing at this point......so much flora, so much potential for a moonscape at this address.....i am depressed...............