Change experts always talk about the adjustments one must make when taking a new action. Here's my required garden adjustment. These lovely gold flowers add a splash of bright color in my garden box. They reach nearly to the top of my window when you look out from inside; so, I get a splash of color there, too. They are healthy and apparently happy.
But here's the catch.
They stand nearly four feet above the tops of my other plants. I read "one meter in height" when I bought them in their little pots last April. My vision of a meter and reality did not align. A meter is longer. My mistake. Like magic, they sprinted up to unforseen heights.
I'll win no landscape awards for my box this year. Too much contrast with one plant over-powering the others. Next year, I'll have to decide: do I remove them in favor of shorter ones or do I add something that grows to a height in-between? No idea yet. I have the winter to do some research.
Meanwhile, I'm accepting and enjoying it for what it is: my lovely-if-not-designer result.
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