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What makes you happy

Jules41Jules41 Posts: 178
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Hello, I was wondering which bit of gardening /your garden that everyone enjoy the most. I'm sure there's lots of studies done by academics into the medical benefits of gardening, but I know that this time of year seems to make so many people more cheerful!  I couldn't help thinking about the  things that make me smile - little bees using my new 'bee hotel ', the baby blackbirds nesting in the ivy, the fat partridges waddling around the lawn, re-potting, the smell of my shed, weeding ... and having a cup on tea on my garden seat! What do other people enjoy most about their garden?  🌻
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  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Seeing the buds emerging from dahlias that I thought had given up the ghost... my OH can't understand how thrilling I find it!
    Lincolnshire
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Seeing a tiny little glink of green on a little cutting that has been 'killed' twice by frost and snow.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Harvesting and eating the fruit and veg!
  • Bagpuss57Bagpuss57 Posts: 256
    Watching the blackbird feed it's baby, sitting on my swing seat in the sunshine watching sparrows come and go on the feeders, gazing at my beautiful flowers as they all start to bloom, camelia, tulips, wallflower, lavender amongst others. Especially love it when I see my seedlings appear after I've sowed them and given them TLC. 
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Watching newly fledged sparrows getting hugely excited about leaning how to fly and hopping from one bush to another. (They nest under my roof).

    Seeing my first brand new baby froglets (the size of my thumbnail) sitting on my carefully designed 'beach' in the tiny new pond I put in last year.

    Seeing bleeding heart tiny spouts come up when I thought it had died.

    Inviting friends round for dinner on a warm night and filling the garden with candles and lanterns, surrounded by the scent of flowers and laughter long into the night. Good wine, homemade ice cream, the sound of the fountain.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've been sowing seeds for over 40 years but I can not describe my joy at seeing seeds germinating. 
    I also love that first flush of growth on grass in the Spring, that particular shade of green is beyond compare.
    Devon.
  • ThankthecatThankthecat Posts: 421
    The only thing I don't like about gardening is when I make mistakes and lose plants. I love having a reason to be outdoors all round the year. I love the close contact with soil and plants as I'm weeding. It makes my heart sing to be surrounded by greenery and hear nothing but birds singing. I get a thrill from seeing seeds germinating. Pricking out seedlings is wonderfully relaxing, with the added bonus of seeing how many plants I've managed to get for just a couple of quid! I smile whenever I see a new planting combination that's just right, perhaps even more so when it's the result of a lucky accident (my recent purchase of an amelanchier whose new leaves just exactly matched the colour of the nearby paeonies as they were emerging). Come to think of it, there is ONE thing I hate and that's mowing the lawn - but then my lovely OH does that for me :)
  • paul_in_surreypaul_in_surrey Posts: 239
    Bees buzzing from flower to flower on plants I've grown specially for them.
    “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Pulling out the forgetmenots and thinning the pulmonaria. It means that the dog can see the rabbit. I know what's survived the winter and I can plant my summer stuff.
    What depresses me us when michaelmas daisies flower. It means it's all over for another year. I don't allow them in my garden - but I see them :/
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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