Retirement has arrived with all its associated anxieties and uncertainties. Since journal writing has often accompanied transitions in my life, this is now a period with opportunities to learn a new skill and give time to writing. A monthly blog is a chance to muse and reflect on my garden and gardening, hoping that I might learn from others gardening ambitiously in rather unlikely situations where ingenuity is often needed, and that between us we might, albeit in small or larger ways, help to green up the urban sky-line.