I am reading a book of garden essays (Thomas Cooper, The Roots of My Obsession) in which famous gardeners describe why they garden. It is fun and resonates a lot with me. And here is a word from one essay:
"Yardening": Being "driven by a desire to keep a tidy landscape or to one-up their neighbors" (Ken Druse "Island Life," p. 77, in the above book). It is not why Druse nor I garden, but it is so true!
Happy Gardening! Not Yardening!
Central Virginia Organic Gardener
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We have a yardener on our street. They hire a landscaping company to plant and re-plant a very large area of flowers around their mailbox often... like about once a month. They have some sort of flat rock around it stacked into a foot high "fence" to separate the garden from the grass.
And that's only a fraction of what the landscapers do in their yard!
The rest of us have slightly given up on the yardening because we just can't compete with them. lol
I like the new word. :)
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