I have been thinking about next season for a while now. Making, mainly mental, notes about what needs to be moved, removed or encouraged. New projects are bubbling up and remedies sought for any obvious mistakes. Although these are valuable exercises, I must remember to appreciate the now, to live a little more in the moment. It is still going strong out there and if I’m not careful I will miss it!
Off The Edge Gardening 
We do tend to get too wrapped up in the “to do” list, forgetting to enjoy the now. Jobs begin to seem overwhelming. Don’t let time make you a victim, it goes quickly. This little patch of gorgeousness realizes that its time will run out. Enjoy it while it allows.
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I know the feeling 😉
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I’m with you. Always on the look-out for the new, the change…
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You are right, but as gardeners we just can’ t help forward planning. However lovely the garden looks, it is difficult to simply sit back and enjoy it. Odd really, because if we were artists we wouldn’ t be obsessively daubing again and again at the same canvas.
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Which is probably why we aren’t artists, or hairdressers!
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How often do we say “It was looking really good last week when the xyz was out”, or “It will be lovely when the abc is in bloom”. Worse still “perhaps next year it will do its stuff”. Enjoy it for what it is, winter will be with us all too soon…
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I expect artists are just as bad, I know musicians are. I think for anyone that is creating something it is difficult to say it is finished because we think we can always make it better. Often it is something as mundane as a deadline that causes a work of art in whatever form, to be called complete.
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So right, and that certainly applies to gardens. Any planting not done by May ( no, not the PM) might just as well wait until the autumn or next spring.
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Very true, it is good to strive to be the best you can be.
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Planning ahead is often on my agenda, one of these days I will follow Vita’s and Christo’s timely advice and write my ideas down in a notebook so I can remember what I had planned. Otherwise I will have forgotten by planting time.
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It seems to be hard wired, this planning ahead. It was the stuff of survival for our ancestors. How priveleged we are to be planning better colour schemes for our perennial beds!
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