Sometimes you plant your garden no matter what

My mother was always going to plant a garden. I heard this statement every place we lived and we lived a lot of place – countries, cities, states, neighborhoods – we were always moving and mom was always going to plant a garden.

I bought pentas and some snowwhite euphorbia and red flames to plant in the garden this week. There is not much growing season left. Most plants won’t have time to mature before the first cold hits. A hurricane could come wipe us away. We could all lose our houses and be forced into the streets. BUT, so what? Every day these plants will get a little bigger and I will enjoy them along with the butterflies for as long as I can.

Reason number 512 to plant your garden now. If not now, then when?

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