Hi gardeners
And what a year it has been for gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
Maybe some of you had more time for gardening this year, certainly some of you
did not have time for gardening. And for those of you who gave up your precious
gardening time to heal and care for us, I deeply thank you.
Gardeners experienced scarcity this year, seeds hoarded
away, garden stores closed, contact with gardening friends curtailed. But they
persevered, as gardeners do. Some had their first garden this year. I hope your
experience left you wanting more and ready to tackle a new garden season.
Gardeners are people who hope. To plant a seed or tender
plant and trust that it will grow and feed us or give us beauty to contemplate,
takes hope. Hope and trust, faith in natures cycles. That the sun rises and
sets, and rains come, and things are born and then die.
We lost gardeners this year too, as in every year. But this
year the ravages of a disease we can’t control took so many. Many gardeners had
their last garden, something they neither planned or expected, and won’t see
the gardens bloom in spring. The gardens they tended may languish, the tidying
hand stilled, the planter of seeds gone. We mourn. But we hope so we go about
preparing for another spring.
It is a new year, a new start. Mourn for what was but
prepare for what will come. Plan the garden, hone the tools, buy the seeds. Let
the sun climbing in the sky pull your spirit up with it. Persist.
May you have a wonderful new year. My best wishes for the
best garden you ever had in the coming year.
New garden blogs will be posted
beginning in January 2021. I’ll see you then.
“Now is the time of fresh starts
This is the season that makes everything new.
There is a longstanding rumor that Spring is the time
of renewal, but that's only if you ignore the depressing
clutter and din of the season. All that flowering
and budding and birthing--- the messy youthfulness
of Spring actually verges on squalor. Spring is too busy,
too full of itself, too much like a 20-year-old to be the best time for
reflection, re-grouping, and starting fresh.
For that you need December. You need to have lived
through the mindless biological imperatives of your life (to bud, and flower,
and show off) before you can see that a landscape of new fallen snow is THE
REAL YOU.
December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best
FRESH START of your life.”
― Vivian Swift, When Wanderers Cease to
Roam: A Traveler's Journal of Staying Put
Kim Willis
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Thank you Kim for all the beautiful newsletters! Your wisdom and love of plants is admirable. When I lived in Arizona your newsletters kept me in touch with Michigan and I really appreciated that. 7 years later I’m back and it’s like I never left. Thanks again and Happy New Year to you and yours.
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