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This garden was mine, for awhile, in my 20's. By late 30's I knew, take out all the perennials, too much down time in winter, too much dead-heading, cutting-back, dividing. Instead, flowering shrubs, evergreen groundcovers, a mix of bulbs. A few perennials paid the rent, iris, hardy ferns, helleborus, Dianthus 'Bath Pink', peony, rudbeckia, a French hollyhock a student gave me, done.
Pic, above , here.
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The necessity of making trade-offs alters how we feel about the decisions we face; more important, it affects the level of satisfaction we experience from the decisions we ultimately make.
― Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.
With changes, my garden was easier to take care of, with no major dormancy season. Most importantly is time saved, opportunity cost. What opportunity? Enjoying my garden, instead of my garden working me. .
Fall in love with the garden, above, sure. Yet, make it work for you, your life.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
— Thomas Sowell
.Good Garden Design inherently has myriad right choices. Oddly, when it's 'your' garden bad choices aren't as apparent. Give Garden Design advice to a friend or neighbor, and mostly right choices flow. A new Cole Porter song is in this truth, with a Noel Coward play backdrop.
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"Each of the myriad decisions we make on a daily basis carries an opportunity cost. If we don’t consider them, we easily end up stuck in situations where we’re forgoing things we’d rather prioritize. We end up lamenting what we’re missing out on against our will, unsure how this happened. But if we first consider the tradeoffs associated with the decisions we make, we can end up with far more satisfying choices." Farnum Street.
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Garden & Be Well, XO T
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