There are periods of great and exciting growth. The subject of gardening covers so much. It's about noticing things, like how fast one or two stalks of equisedum can take over a yard. It's about swapping ginger roots with friends, leaving flats of leftover marigolds on a neighbor's porch, sharing a stash of irises. It's about planting a tree for a friend who died.
Gardening is about life and death, then and now, success and failure.
Which is sort of the point of this project. At the end of every month, photographer Steve Bisson and I are going to offer snapshots of what's going on in the garden. We're going to focus on my yard, an empty city lot in downtown Savannah that I started gardening six years ago. Long enough to see patterns. Long enough to see what will grow, what won't.