Accepting what we can't change
Pardon us
We're still fussing with this bit, so you may be seeing an
incomplete version -- keep refreshing your page to keep up with
us.
Every garden has problems. No sense going crazy over what we
can't change. For instance:
Bunny battles
Heat and drought ought to be enough but no, we have to fend off
bunnies, too. Or not -- this garden is in a zoo where thousands of
children visit every day. Traps and other visible tactics
unfriendly to animals have been removed from the gardeners' bag of
tricks. Less visible techniques, such as repellents, can be used
only in certain situations where there is no chance they will
affect the zoo's rightful inhabitants. With those restrictions,
we're left with noticing what the rabbits don't eat and trying to
grow more of that. This year we notice that they have steered clear
of celosia and salvia in the annual areas, while they keep
marigolds and ageratum nibbled to nubs.
