I enjoy the gardens everyone else plants

Summer arrived suddenly. It was as if spring got shortchanged and we leapt from late winter into summer with nothing in between. I watched the gardeners wake with a start and begin tearing up their lawns and gardens with a fury, as if they had overslept and had to make up for lost time.

I do not garden. I spent most of my adult life trying to convince myself that I liked gardening and I was just no…