Such Wiseness. Wiseosity.
RickCorey has just given some great advice. About gardening. And other parts of life.
My Mom loved flowers and gardens. She loved to pick flowers and arrange them in a nice vase, and she had quite a few vases. She loved to have people over and sit in the shade on the patio, surrounded by beauty.
She wasn't really into spending time weeding, planning, dividing, pruning, figuring out replacement plants. She was terrible at watering houseplants, she would drown them. She hated getting dirty and sweaty, and did not want to be all alone in the yard. She didn't want to spend her evenings reading about how to do it.
She figured this out about herself, she got rid of the houseplants. She hired a pro to design and install a garden in her tiny yard. Instructions were easy care flowers. Her husband made a deck (he loved building things so he enjoyed this). My Mom loved her little yard. She made bouquets of flowers, and had garden parties.
A friend of hers who saw her pretty garden gave her a book called The Adventurous Gardener by Christopher Lloyd, about how to propagate plants, and about oddities he liked. It really was for the "adventurous gardener". My Mom hated the book. She gave it to me. I loved it and have just bought another copy because I wore it out. I love to read all about a subject, try experiments, dig and get dirty, try "iffy" plants. It's all a challenge to me.
My Mom and I both loved our gardens, and as RickCorey says, we focused on what we liked.
