“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all, it teaches entire trust.”

–Gertrude Jekyll, from The Gardening Companion: A Guide to the Art of Garden Design

 

My November Guest

Robert Frost

1874 – 1963

My sorrow, when she’s here with me,
     Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
     She walks the sodden pasture lane.

Her pleasure will not let me stay.
     She talks and I am fain to list:
She’s glad the birds are gone away,
She’s glad her simple worsted grey
     Is silver now with clinging mist.

The desolate, deserted trees,
     The faded earth, the heavy sky,
The beauties she so truly sees,
She thinks I have no eye for these,
     And vexes me for reason why.

Not yesterday I learned to know
     The love of bare November days
Before the coming of the snow,
But it were vain to tell her so,
     And they are better for her praise.

 
 

 

 

 

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Planting 

Many plant experts opine that autumn is the ideal time to plant shrubs, trees, and perennials in your garden. The plants have time to settle their roots into the soil before the cold weather arrives, without having to worry about flowering and sprouting (you know that plants worry, right?). Come spring, the plants can get on with the job of growing, roots already well established. Another good reason to plant in the fall is the numerous year-end sales at garden shops at nurseries!

Here’s another thought, from the Washington Post: Researchers looked at survey data from 50,683 people and found that contact with nature was associated with improved body image. Who knew?

 

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