Holidays with phlox. Greetings from American settlers light up Czech gardens

Every year, I try again, and with admitted futility, to translate a famous quote from Vita Sackville-West. The lady who created one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, surrounding Sissinghurst Castle, confesses her garden blues in it. She laments the sad moment when the first phlox blooms in the garden, and the amber light that brings with it the end of that magnificent bloom of early summer. She reminds us that we must already think ahe…