New is good.....new gardens from the old.

 "It is such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season..." 
                                  -Kate Morton (The Forgotten Garden)

 New is good. This year I decided to get the garden razed.

 Some things. Like in the greenhouse. Will stay.

 Other things. Green or not so green. Will be purged.

 New choices. New things.

 Pots . More pots. Garden beds turned over .

 New canvas of dirt to plant in.

 "Novels and gardens, she says, I like to move from plot to plot." 
                                                            -Bill Richardson

 Wherever I could I kept the Native Cranesbill. The bees love the Cranesbill.

 But every pot. Every trough. Every bed is getting raked and dug up.

 First new perennial to be planted: Larkspur. Loves the sun.

 And of course, Spencer-from-the hill, will always be a welcome perennial.

 "Each of us is like seed. Planted by the Good Gardener....so we might grow into something majestic..."  -Seth Adam Smith (Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern)

 Even the birds have a makeover. Two massive bird feeders on which they hang. 

 And the cranesbill still flourishes after all the digging.

 You can tell how overgrown the beds were by the dark wet marks on the cement. That's how far the weeds and overgrown plants travelled.

 And Larkspur finds a home at last. One down . A bunch more to plant.

 And Smokey in the last days of March  before Easter 2017. New  is good.

Photographs 2018