
While I wait for Mother Nature’s next cruelty to gardens, I am busy planning new plantings. They vary with gardens’ categories: new ones, small ones, big ones in need of revitalisation and big ones that are gloriously empty and need planting throughout. Planning of plantings can be micro or macro. It can be obsessive, down to the last mini-primrose, or relaxed, about which plants in a big batch will eventually go where. It is fascinating to see which type of planner new garden owners begin by being and which they become with experience.
在等待大自然對花園的下一次考驗時,我忙於規劃新的種植方案。根據花園的類型不同,方案也各有不同:有的是新建的,有的是小型的,有的是需要復興的大型花園,還有的是空曠而壯麗、需要全面種植的大型花園。種植規劃可以是微觀的,也可以是宏觀的。它可以是精細到最後一株小報春花的強迫性規劃,也可以是關於一大批植物最終去向的放鬆規劃。觀察新花園主人最初是哪種類型的規劃者,以及隨著經驗的積累他們會變成哪種類型,真是令人著迷。