I take the model of perennial plants and even shrubs as the garden’s “backbone” with pockets of annual planting that must be “flipped’ multiple times a year.

The garden is tired, too. I’d like to think that we’re sympatico: two weary travelers, ready for a long winter’s nap.

It’s about this time every year that I vow to move North at the earliest possible opportunity.

It feels like not a lot newsworthy happened in the garden, but sometimes that’s just as much worth noting as the dramatic stuff.

Patience! It’s one of the hardest lessons of the garden - one that is offered up on repeat, season after season, because I’m not sure we ever truly master it.

Compared to the big push of April, May was a pretty light month for garden tasks. It rained, and rained, and rained.

April has to be one of the most dynamic for the garden - at least, it’s definitely one of the busiest!

The challenge is to take the spirit of the abundantly blooming, effervescent English garden and translate it to something that is both possible with climate and plant palette here in the Southeastern US.

The garden is a laboratory, a learning process, a living thing. Since March just ended, I’ll summarize a few things that happened last month.