If gardening teaches anything, it is flexibility and patience. I have written directly and indirectly about both and as we approach fall, as a gardener or wanna-be gardener, fall is prime time for many activities. Among the most notable is that, theoretically, this is the best time to plant almost anything.

Enter a significant obstacle – there is not enough demand for new plants for fall planting to entice nurseries to purchase many of them as they do in spring. So, flexibility is important if you absolutely need something specific such that you look for it online or find something that is in the local trade that will do. If neither of these can satisfy the issue, patience is required until spring or when that plant is available.

Patience is better demonstrated with plants that are alrea

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