Gardening Advice From Ralph Snodsmith
In this piece on Garden Design that lays out eight landscape design principles, there are some things that I found interesting and wanted to share here. Both for you, my dear reader, but also so I remember them. To start, I thought I'd go with the final one on *their* list. It was this final one that caught my attention. This little nugget is from a guy named Ralph Snodsmith who hosted a radio show about gardening in New York . I'm sure he imparted quite a bit of knowledge to his listeners/callers, but it seems that he had one statement that stood above the rest. This certainly feels like something I need to remind myself when I'm out in the garden: "It’s better to plant a 50-cent plant in a $5 hole, than a $5 plant in a 50-cent hole." The Garden Design piece goes on to say that there's no greater planting wisdom than this. Hole preparation, especially for folks like me who, due to new construction, have a clay layer that is in many of the bed