Let’s face it. Life doesn’t always come as we want. Family issues usually crop up. Turmoil happens. And when life gets in the way of your gardening you need to prepare to deal with it. Then, you have to think when you go away from gardening.
If your landscape was well tended before that unexpected surgery, parental crisis, and another unplanned event, your garden would be just fine for a period of time. Mother nature will cut you a break because you have been so conscientious about tending to your landscape. But the plants will continue to grow and that means all of them, really. This is called succession.