Continuing the work of The Gardener

Message from Mrs cs:

I would like to convey my heartfelt thanks to those who have felt moved to send me messages both publicly and privately. My apologies that I have not yet manage to reply to you personally but I will do so once the obvious chaos dissipates.

I haven’t found many unpublished works by Steve that I feel are appropriate to add to this site at the moment. I am working my way very slowly through all of the posts and printing them for Steve’s Dad but I do find it hard at times. However, I have been giving some thought to what to do with Steve’s blog.

Certainly, I feel it is entirely appropriate to leave it ‘live’ so that others who have an interest in doggerel can read it. I have also been considering adding a new page to document the ‘rescue’ of the garden which is sort of where our on-line life started many years ago with a little website documenting the garden and plants which is still out there frozen forever in the year 2006. I do wonder whether it is ‘right’ to use Steve’s blog for this purpose, so if you have any thoughts about it please don’t hesitate to share them.

I’m still trying to sort out what I have to live on and trying to adjust to life without Steve so there won’t be a lot of news as we go into Autumn and Winter. The good news though is Steve’s Dad is going to make it possible for the garden to be kept in its present form (1 acre) so I won’t have to make too many agonising decisions about where to cut the garden off. It also means that there is a real prospect for me to remain at Hedgelands.

My plan is to create a new page or pages to share progress (or the lack thereof) in the garden (this post being the first). I don’t expect many to read this part of the blog and to be honest the work (and the progress reports) are dedicated to Steve – besides his ashes can’t be scattered about until I’ve got the grass at the very least under control!

Michele
(aka Mrs cs)
PS . should visitors wish to comment or post doggerel, poetry, questions about plants or gardening I have left that facility (for the time being) in place. Sadly, I will not be quite as engaging or talented a host as Steve but I will do my best.