Walking Continues

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, from Inversnaid The Kidneywood on the left is the star of the garden this year. It's beautiful and allegedly a favorite of butterflies and bees. It's hard to tell - there's much competition. I keep trying to develop a way of keeping track of the gardens - wild and vegetable. Avoiding replanting of those things that have refused residence would be nice. A list of overly aggressive plants would also help. But what I have learned is that plants behave differently in this garden. Things that grow for my brother and sister laugh at me. Plants that don't thrive in their gardens consume any spare space for me. And growth, even in a time of drought has been surprising.* What's new? This year I located plants I wanted - Mexican Buckeye and Texas Redbud for two. Having seen a Kidneywood in a f