From ACs last article: You can break your back potting a single rose — a single instance of pleasant, loving romance, perhaps — and maybe you’ll get that rose to grow. If you try hard enough, I’m sure you can get it to grow actually. But the rest of your garden will keep on growing what it does because the soil you’ve laid down hasn’t changed. We think, in our short-sightedness, that if we just toil over one flower and get something beautiful to grow this once, that magically the rest of our garden will bloom into perfection. But that’s not how it works. And, if all the time and energy poured into your one fated-not-to-live-long rose had been poured into improving the quality of your soil, you might’ve sprouted ten flourishing roses in the same amount of time it took you bring one barely-alive one into existence.