The Dry Garden: Weeding in the rain
Posted on | October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
With the first rain of the season fast evaporating from the tree leaves outside the window, it feels as if I may never again enjoy perfect gloom. So much rain in Los Angeles fails to come at all; other times it comes down too hard, and so often it falls at night. By contrast, this week water met daylight. From morning till night, the atmosphere was like gray milk, making visibility down among the plants incomparably good. Without its normal cover of glare, the garden stood for inspection … By Wednesday afternoon, it was time to admit a knuckle-scraping truth. The job that needed doing was weeding.
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October 18th, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
Far worse is the result of these grasses in wildlands and parks restored to native habitat. Frequently, there is no one to weed.
October 18th, 2009 @ 7:09 pm
Well said!