I am planning my new garden with great care, but I have to say it is taking over the living room and my office. We have about five trays of flowers – I have no idea, really, what, other than that there are sunflowers, zinnias and wildflowers. We had to go to Bedlam Farm to get a dozen plastic pots to handle the booming and growing plants which are now all over the place, displacing my papers and files on the table in my study.

We can’t plant them outside for at least another month and by that time, the farmhouse may look like Columbia. Be careful what you wish for. I told you I was an obsessive waterer.