Your mother said she "put them where they wanted to be." I'm sure she did talk to plants. But I'm not sure a plant always knows the yard well enough to know where it wants to be. I had Bart dig up a plant the former owner had planted that wasn't thriving and move it elsewhere in the yard, thinking that was the proper place for it. It didn't thrive there, either. Bart was exasperated when I wanted it moved again, but did it, and it thrived in the yhird spot. Sometimes, just paying attention to how it's doing and responding works. I'll bet you were the cutest little girl.
isn't that a conversation? We are approximating, dancing, helping each other, together figure out what it is we really want and where it is we really belong!
Your mother said she "put them where they wanted to be." I'm sure she did talk to plants. But I'm not sure a plant always knows the yard well enough to know where it wants to be. I had Bart dig up a plant the former owner had planted that wasn't thriving and move it elsewhere in the yard, thinking that was the proper place for it. It didn't thrive there, either. Bart was exasperated when I wanted it moved again, but did it, and it thrived in the yhird spot. Sometimes, just paying attention to how it's doing and responding works. I'll bet you were the cutest little girl.
isn't that a conversation? We are approximating, dancing, helping each other, together figure out what it is we really want and where it is we really belong!
it won't let me paste a photo of myself...with cats and flowers and fig trees...but I tried.