It's become clear to me through posts and PMs that there are some gardeners here just waiting for the chance to discuss gardening!
So, I was thinking... how do you use gardening, or how does it affect you if you need a break, need some respite, need to relax, need inspiration....how do you use it as a therapy tool in caregiving?
What are your activities: Do you go out and pull weeds, read a magazine, design new beds? Look through garden catalogues? Go to garden stores?
And what interests have you added to your gardening? Visit estate or garden displays? Do you go to garden shows?
Does anyone design and plant Knot Gardens? Raised bed planters? Assistive gardens? Pollinator gardens (and have you thought of ways to help the bees and butterflies?)
Are your gardens primarily for pleasure or food, or a mix of both? Do you grow plants for medicinal purposes? Which ones, how do you harvest and process them? Any suggestions?
Do you grow plants that can be used in crafts, such as grapevines for wreaths and lavender for lavender wands? Do you make herbal products such as creams, lotions, chapstick?
What else can you share about gardening and the means in which it nurtures your soul?
I do not like grasshoppers.
Eww! Dh says they are somehow beneficial too.
Reading-I am not going to kill them!
Not liking the idea to kill anything.
Going to try the "Live and let live method" to life for about two weeks.
That includes my neighbors.
Have you heard of the theory/book: "Let them"?
Cwillie, There have been a few dragonflies over the years, but do not take up a permanent residence.
Last week, leveled out two bags of smooth rocks, jut under one inch in size.
Mixed colors, but many dark grey. Makes a difference, just small improvements.
There is rain today, a bit yesterday. Watering my little self-maintaining garden areas. We still have the big cape honeysuckle, thriving. And the same bouganvillia
struggling, then coming back, and looks a bit different daily. It cannot figure out the hot sunny days then rainy cold days. But it likes to live in the special place in the sun all day, plenty of air circulating around it.
Wanting to see more hummingbirds soon.
daughter - sounds so lovely. Nothing like spring flowers
Here I was looking at the field outside which is still partly snow covered but getting muddy as well, and thinking that I will be glad to see the weeds that grow until the farmer works it. Green is good!
Last year we got rid of are pool, kept the deck, and turned it into, what I call a "She Deck" this year, I'm making a flower garden in front of it.
That is going to be fun and a learning experience.
Cwillie, I'm doing a happy dance with you. 💃🕺💃🕺, but probably looks more like the Ellen dance from Seinfeld.
Golden, how's your snow, and temperatures going? Still blustery here, but so much better, I hope things are getting better where you are.
Snow is sparkling on the branches of the trees tall and brown.
But the flowers are not forgotten,
Spring will bring them all to light;
for the frost in dream has traced them
on my window last night.
It's been ridiculously difficult to find the words to this sweet little song, I've retained the melody since grade school. Yes it's snowing here again today but I don't really mind because I know it's only temporary.