Leaving the Garden Behind
Well, it’s come to the time when I have to stay goodbye to the garden I’ve built and worked for two years. But that’s okay, as my mother says “there’ll be other gardens to sow”, and she’s right. But still, it’s always hard saying goodbye. Especially when you suspect that your garden won’t be taken care of by the people who’ll be moving in, and it’ll probably be ripped out and sodded.
But things are fleeting, and that’s okay, because there will always be a new garden.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Oh, that makes me so sad. We will be moving in 18 months and I am dreading leaving my garden too. Im hoping that whoever inherits your lovely daisies and tomatoes will appreciate them!
July 19th, 2006 at 2:54 am
yeah, you never know - maybe a gardener will move in. or maybe some of your plants will stage a come-back through the sod!
July 19th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Take your perennials with you. That’s what my sister and I do. She’s been packing plants around with her for 15 years. Then you have memories, sentiment and YOUR flowers :D
July 20th, 2006 at 7:58 am
We just bought a house and left our apartment of three years where I built my best garden ever. It was really really sad to leave it behind, but I took cuttings of most of my perenials and even dug several that were more sentimental to me. Now I begin what I belive is a 2 summer task (starting next summer as I am pregnant now) of cleaning up our huge new backyard jungle and implementing my new garden. Looking forward to it, but miss relaxing in my old completed space. Oh well onward to bigger and better things!!
July 20th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
I left behind my garden at a house we’d lived in for 20 years and it was so hard, but I divided a lot of perennials (hostas, cimcifuga, peonies) etc. Luckily we had 4 months before moving but then I had to keep everything watered. I dismantled my compost heaps and everything was potted up in nearly pure compost (over 100 pots). Everything survived the move and boxes were left unpacked while I planted the new garden!
July 21st, 2006 at 3:36 pm
I know this day is coming for me, and it was kinda hard to even work on it this year thinking it could very well be our last. I think that taking cuttings and pottings is ingenious; worst case scenario, my mom can grow them for a year and then give me divisions of those. Half of our three gardens came from her house, anyway :)