Time Well Spent Gardening

Don La Grand from Costa Mesa say it well , " I think when you love what you ’re doing time seems to disappear . "

" When we purchased this household in 1986 , it was in the process of being paint and then they stopped . It was 5 unlike color when we make it . The yard was over grown or dead . The backyard was un - level and the original fencing was rotten . So I put back the fence myself and I made it 1 foot taller than the original , then I brought in 30 yards of surface soil to to back fill the low area in the backyard . I also had to put a Barrier between the dirt in the wooden fence to keep the unexampled fencing from corroding . Now with the new topsoil added and using my garden hosiery as a guide , I could lay out the flowerbed borders with the brick that I buy from home building supply place that was going out of clientele 2 years earlier . I have them at a super price reduction . Then I start the fun part of all of this . select the basis industrial plant . I used Silver - sheen in the depository financial institution yard and birch trees in the front yard . Then over the next 5 year I filled everything in with shrub , perennials and annuals . My yard here in Southern California is forever changing and now with piss rationing going on here , I ’ve drive to think sagely about my plant choice . This has transformed slowly over the past 30 old age , but I ’ve enjoyed every minute of the process . I guess when you jazz what you ’re doing time seems to melt . "

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