I am reading a book called ‘Life in the Garden’ by Penelope Lively that I picked up in the library. Can’t resist sharing this section of the introduction…

‘We garden for tomorrow, and thereafter. We garden in expectation, and that is why it is so invigorating. Gardening, you are no longer stuck in the here and now; you think backwards, and forwards, you think of how this and that performed last year, you work out your hopes and plans for the next. And, for me, there is this abiding astonishment at the fury for growth, at the tenacity of plant life, at the unstoppable dictation of the seasons.’