Introduction

 

 

What’s Missing?

So you’re a top-notch gardener. The envy of the neighborhood. All your friends marvel at your gorgeous spring blooms. The hours you spend in your yard – hacking at the dirt, pulling out stray weeds, and setting bulbs carefully into the ground – they’re the finest times you know.

It just can’t get any better, right? Wrong.

One day in the sun, you notice there’s something missing. What is it? The bees and flies are buzzing around as usual. The air has an earthy, early-summer smell. It’s pleasingly quiet in your yard.

Maybe too quiet…. Hard to put your finger on it, as you look around the rows of begonias and pansies, tulips and lilies, but something is definitely lacking. There’s so much dazzling color. So much life. What could it possibly be?All of a sudden it comes to you. Water. Your garden is, for all intents and purposes, dry, without even a birdbath to collect the bounty that falls from the sky. Yet water, the basic element for all life on earth, is a crucial element for any garden. All of a sudden it comes to you. Water. Your garden is, for all intents and purposes, dry, without even a birdbath to collect the bounty that falls from the sky. Yet water, the basic element for all life on earth, is a crucial element for any garden.

And we’re not just talking about a sprinkler here.