Restless gardener
Phlox
“Today I’d like nothing more strenuous than to sit still and admire the huge heads of phlox that the wet season has produced in the perennial borders and watch the bees sipping nectar from the poisonous monkshood and plundering the lavender spikes of the veronicas. But a gardener’s mind is restless; it runs on ahead, and that is the penalty that one pays for the life of culture.’’
— Katherine S. White (1892-1977), famed New Yorker magazine editor, in her only book, Onward and Upward in the Garden. She was married to the writer E.B. White and lived in most of the latter years of her life in Brooklin, Maine, on the Blue Hill Peninsula, where she had her garden.
