As a gardener it's really not so much about thinking in a linear way and just saying

okay well everyone says do this so that's what I'm going to do it's it's about building

the skills and tools of thought almost as a gardener to know when to break the rules

when to go with the rules how to shift and adapt strategy to have the best garden possible

and I can imagine Chris you were talking about how you had kind of an exciting your your

words of exciting crazy year of weather right and so obviously that that changes quite

a bit of what you have to do in the garden so I'm curious you know adaptability is there

anything you did maybe in 2021 that you aren't going to do in 2022 as far as adaptability

hmm well I mean it's probably not in the sense of like like introducing like strange plants

of the garden I'm still going to do that because who knows maybe whatever I try will be great

with whatever kind of surprise weather hits me but I guess for me like what I'm doing right

now as I'm trying to envision what my garden will turn into in the next few years I'm looking

around and I'm trying to identify plants mostly perennial plants that did well through last

years heat waves and also the weird cold snaps and I want to grow more of those plants in the

garden so like right now I'm walking around outside and I see a lot of my creeping times just

kind of come back to life they I know they do well in the heat and in the sun and they are

hearty in my area some are doing better than others so I'm just going to keep dividing the ones

that seem to be the most resilient and I'm just going to spread them all over the garden and

like have them grow into this mat and I guess the thinking behind that for like a long longer

lived adaptable garden is that they're going to hold the soil in place they're going to keep

providing like beauty like through flowers through evergreen foliage I know they're going to be

serving the pollinators they smell great so they do a lot and I know that I don't need to do too much

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