Dear friends,
“The obstacle is the path.”
Was it Ben Franklin, Confucius or Will Rogers who said it? I’m not sure, but the garden can be a pretty great place to experience this somber truth.
Perhaps like me, you’ve had a lovely vision of some pretty flowers blooming in a bare patch of ground. You can imagine the beautiful landscape in your mind, and all you have to do is engage in a little cultivating and planting.
You decide to do a simple little project and sow some flower seeds in a modest swath of dirt.
People successfully plant seeds every day! you tell yourself. What could possibly go wrong?