The cold, dark winter has ended and the sun has returned to bring new growth and new life to our world. The Vernal Equinox is an ancient holiday that symbols the rebirth of the fields and is celebrated by symbols of rebirth, eggs, rabbits and chickens. The day will be equal length to the night. This holiday was be renamed, moved and adopted by a new belief system.
The Schorrs were hard at work in the gardens yesterday, making sure our new blossoms had places to grow. Last year at this time this house was vacant and no one was here to tend the garden. We had a great time.
Sprinklers were repaired and new sprinkler line installed. Large bulb flowers were relocated and errant wildflowers we enjoyed on cold mornings are being pulled to make way for the calla lillies that are coming in, and fast. I plan on taking some pictures in the next few days and will put them up as soon as I can.
Working in the overgrown garden got me thinking about our recent economic woes and it made perfect sense.
While our house was vacant, the garden grew and grew without anyone to cut it back when it was needed. There were dozens of different plants all growing faster and faster, overcrowding each other. When we moved in the garden area was completely overgrown, breaking out of the borders and trying to grow across the pathway to the side yard. There had been no one to cut back the growth at a safe rate so each plant grows to it's own full potential.
Instead most of the flowers and plants were choking each other off and the garden was a mess. Someone needs to watch over the garden and make sure it grows in a way that any plant has a chance to flower and if the conditions aren't right and the plant can't do well, we remove it and another will take it's place.
Yesterday I completely "regulated" our garden by pulling a very entrenched large bulb system of reeds which had cropped up around a leaky sprinkler. Had there been 3-4 plants, it might have been OK, but there were dozens of plants all packed into this small area. All were still reeds and competing for sun, water and nutrients against one another so much, not a single one of them flowered.
So what happened was we had no gardener tending our garden, aggressive plants took over and grew too large for the space, eventually choking off the rest of the bulbs. After I cleared it out last year and tended it early in the spring, in a few weeks we'll be treated to a wonderful, carefully minded garden.
And that's how you fix the economy. Forget economic theory, it has failed. just get out in the garden and it will all make sense.
That reminds me, would you like to buy some reed plants? I have extra.
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