I always find it fascinating to compare Elizabeth Lawrence's bloom journal entries with what's happening in her garden present-day.  A better biographer this garden could not have had; on-site, we have 30 years of bloom journals - 1953 through 1983.  Here are a couple of entries I recently found interesting:

Elizabeth Lawrence's garden fares amazingly well through the long dry periods we call the "dog days of summer."  (The dry spell started far too early this year... months before the "dogs days" usually begin.) 

"It seems to me that there is never a time when some living thing is not pushing up from the ground, and that at the beginning of the year there is a more vital stirring."

- Elizabeth Lawrence, Gardens in Winter