Chaos Gardener T-Shirt igl-id-11267 and a butterfly gather around

and a butterfly gather around the words Good Gardens Have Many Visitors

The words plants before furniture appear in a clean typewriter style

held firmly

every wilting stem registers as a small personal crisis

There is a whole conversation happening out there that has nothing to do with screens or schedules

Chaos Gardener T-Shirt igl-id-11267 and a butterfly gather aroundFor gardeners who have a plan right up until the seed packet opens. The rows were straight in February. By June the squash found the fence, the volunteers outnumbered the plantings, and the whole bed hums along just fine without a map. It is not neglect. It is trust with a sense of humor. Bold block letters with one wandering line looping through, the way a vine ignores a trellis. Somewhere in the tangle, everything is growing.