Why shortcutting your garden might just shortcut your joy and what the scenic route can teach us instead... the joy of gardening isn’t in getting it right. It’s in getting gloriously lost.
You have a beautiful garden, and I’ve loved your writing since first hearing about you on Gardeners World and I do appreciate the hard work that goes into your newsletters. However I’m disappointed that yet another writer goes behind a paywall - I just can’t afford all this £7/£8/£9 every month.
No need to apologise Anna. I don’t think the payment structure on Substack is very well thought out. I can’t afford to subscribe to my favourite writers either so I really appreciate your honesty and I understand completely.
There will always be free content here though. I wish I could write all free content but I can’t afford to do that either. Hope you stick around. The free content has just as much love and attention poured into it.
Love this! I've always thought my gardens were representative of some of the chaos happening in my mind - kind of an outpouring of random creativity. You have beautiful gardens!!
Thank you Tina. Appreciate that. I feel the same way. There is beauty in chaos. My flower garden is more naturalistic these days as I’m breaking away from formal planting schemes. I position plants where they’ll look beautiful to me. Some call it messy. I love Great Dixter. It’s all over the place. Flopping across the paths. I hear people walking around remarking on how untidy and weedy it is. Makes me chuckle.
You have a beautiful garden, and I’ve loved your writing since first hearing about you on Gardeners World and I do appreciate the hard work that goes into your newsletters. However I’m disappointed that yet another writer goes behind a paywall - I just can’t afford all this £7/£8/£9 every month.
Anyway - good luck, and sorry to be grumpy!
No need to apologise Anna. I don’t think the payment structure on Substack is very well thought out. I can’t afford to subscribe to my favourite writers either so I really appreciate your honesty and I understand completely.
There will always be free content here though. I wish I could write all free content but I can’t afford to do that either. Hope you stick around. The free content has just as much love and attention poured into it.
Love this! I've always thought my gardens were representative of some of the chaos happening in my mind - kind of an outpouring of random creativity. You have beautiful gardens!!
Thank you Tina. Appreciate that. I feel the same way. There is beauty in chaos. My flower garden is more naturalistic these days as I’m breaking away from formal planting schemes. I position plants where they’ll look beautiful to me. Some call it messy. I love Great Dixter. It’s all over the place. Flopping across the paths. I hear people walking around remarking on how untidy and weedy it is. Makes me chuckle.