Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show: New gardeners and a philosophical take on gardening
With Covid-19 came a huge increase in new gardeners. Gardening offers so much more than the flowers, the vegetables, the shrubs and trees.
It’s enjoying the sunshine, the playing in the dirt, the thrill of creating something and watching nature do her magic. It brings an appreciation for our planet that we don’t always see in busy lives.
It’s my hope that this slow-down in running from here to there will help us all embrace a quieter pace.
Gardens and their bounty don’t happen in our time but in their time. Patience, while not always MY strong suit, is something that gardening has brought to me. Watching that seed grow to something edible or seeing, years later, what was the new crabapple tree grow from a skinny sapling to a more stately bloomer-bursting-beauty that the birds adore.
This time of year is when we can really dream about all those wonderful plants. Of course, there is a reality to gardening, like some plants die, some are not suited to our climate, our soil or space.
Oh but THAT means we get to try OTHER plants.
Sometimes our tastes change and we look to change what we loved two years ago. Frankly that happens to me often! But that’s also the joy of gardening.
If something doesn’t work for us, or we don’t want that plant any longer, there is someone else that does. Okay, dig it up and give it away! Last year I had a LOT of that.
A neighbor was refurbishing the landscape at his church. I had a bunch of divisions and other plants I no longer wanted and he was THRILLED to get.
So, today, plan, dream and scheme your garden of tomorrow.