Growing under the
toughest conditions - rocky crevices, bone-dry sand, bogs, alpine slopes - where
none but the most daring gardener would ever dream of planting a flower garden, wildflowers seem to defy all
odds, and everything every gardening book tells us about "moist, fertile,
well-drained loamy soil." And yet, each plant is perfectly suited to its environment.
When I get discouraged,
squinting at the dirt to discern tiny flower seedlings from the
ever-encroaching weeds and wondering how I am ever going to make them grow, I
remind myself of wildflowers, growing on "less than a little," and
thriving! Most of our flowers are, after
all, no more than weeds and wildflowers that someone took notice of one day,
propagated and developed (some more than others) into garden plants.
And so, I take heart:
if the wildflowers can do it, surely with a little aide (mostly in the form of supplementary
water and soil nutrients) my flower patch can too thrive and bloom, against the
odds!
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