Start small, go slowly
Jane Perrone describes how heatwaves, burnout, and health struggles have turned her once-joyful garden into a source of stress, and shares five things that helped her recover and reclaim it as a source of joy.
There’s an episode of the classic sci series Star Trek set on a mining planet called Janus VI where a lava-like alien racks up a considerable death toll. The workers had all been ‘burned to a crisp’, the locals tell Kirk and Spock. I’ve found myself wanting to use that exact same phrase about my garden recently: perhaps you have, too?