Let it be!

That's what I learned from Fine Gardening Managing Editor Steve Aitken.

We recently moved to a new home-- and this is our first growing season there. We knew the garden had been left alone for a few years, but I was really at a loss. I just didn't know what was what-- what was a plant, what was a weed.

Fortunately for me, I wondered that aloud on air-- it was on my birthday-- May 14.

And what a birthday present!

It came in the form of an email:

Dear Rebecca, I was pleased to hear a mention of gardening on this morning's broadcast. As the Managing Editor of a national gardening magazine based in Connecticut, I would be happy to help you sort your ornamentals from your weeds.

Let me know if you need help

Best,

Steve Aitken

Managing Editor

Fine Gardening

And so we did.
Yes-- I wrote back! We need help!
And Steve was happy to oblige.
He came over and helped out. What I thought were weeds-- were really perennials. And I have a lot to look forward to this summer.

Steve told me to let things go for a while, clean up what I could-- but let the big stuff go. It will bloom, he promised me. And it already has started to!

It's looking really great. And I'm so thankful.

Next week, we'll try to check out roses!