A Theory and Discovery

Yesterday, while driving around on one of our little jaunts in the countryside, I was able to test a little gardening theory. We were about an hour-and-a-half away from the mountain in the North East Kingdom and came upon a little town where all of the houses, without exception, had beautiful cottage gardens. The plantings were not the typical-to-Vermont mass of lupines with a clump of old, rusting, metal things thrown in somewhere prominent for good measure. Rather, there was plant variety and artistic composition involved in these gardens.

Well, it's a one, two, three in deduction. When a tiny little town is situated thirty-five minutes from a grocery store, with a forty-five minute, siren-blaring drive to the emergency room that certainly helps to enforce Darwinian law, and the town has been digging in the dirt, en masse, with the success of a garden show, then a pretty solid conclusion can be drawn that a first class nursery is nearby.

Happily, my theory proved correct in this instance and, quite by chance, we turned down a dirt road and happened upon a nursery that put the truck in quick reverse. Perennial Pleasures Nursery of Vermont http://www.perennialpleasues.net offers a delightful selection of green growing things in their nursery but they also host a Garden Skills Workshop and a Garden Tour of their stunning display gardens every Sunday.

So baring a deluge to rival Noah's, I'll be following the dirt roads north again in the next few days. Obviously, Perennial Pleasures has taught the town of Greensboro Bend a thing or two about gardening and I want in on it.