How New Should it Be?
When I was in-between jobs last year (i.e. waiting for my next office job to come through) I took the pleasure of working as a ‘Residential Gardener’ for most of the summer. Granted general clean-up duties could sometimes be a drag, but there were many occasions where we would plant a shipment of new plants and shrubs. Straight from the nursery, off the truck, into the garden. This was always a lot of fun. Once everything was planted it was then a case of standing back and simply appreciating the work we had just done. One thing I used to sometimes notice was the mild apprehension on a client’s face once everything was planted. You could read their faces sometimes; “This doesn’t really look like what I saw in last month’s ‘Gardens Illustrated’ magazine.” Followed by a very hesitant, “So . . . these plants will definitely grow and move into shape, yeah?” Yes, they most certainly will. I would often take the liberty of reassuring the client that the image they saw which had so