I could write a book on the pleasures the garden gives (well, certainly a chapter) -I suppose we are doing that now! Nature doing its thing is a wonder to me each and every year. You plant a seed or young plant, and watch the metamorphosis unfold. I particularly love those chance or unexpected moments when you catch a glimpse of something - maybe a plant combination, maybe the weather and light making something look picture-perfect, or finding that a plant has flowered or appeared that you weren’t expecting.
The miracle of germination, harvesting of organic fruit and veg to provide for my family, the happy going-about of beneficial wildlife, and the blooms of trees and plants.
My pond, bees buzzing, the robin who comes into the house and cheeps at me (in my head it’s telling me all the mealworm has gone and I dutifully put out more!), scents, the sun on my back and eating the veg. One of my favourite things is grabbing a cup of tea in the morning and doing the rounds, deadheading as I go and running out of hands, it makes me think of my Mum, who did exactly the same thing, usually in her dressing gown, bed hair and her slippers! 😊
@B3 "It means that the dog can see the rabbit". Is this a Czech proverb?
I love the moment I open the bottom of a compost bin I haven't peaked at for a year and find chocolate cakey, crumbly, sweet smelling, forest floor. I do a little dance.
The first snowdrops followed by all the other spring flowers in turn. Watching the birds gathering nesting materials. The robin following me as I work while the blackbird sings merrily. Seeing the bees going from flower to flower; the field mice climbing stems to get to seed heads. The berries on the pyracanthas and holly providing food for the birds.
What I will be happy for are plants that show life in the next few weeks after the previous server frost. But what makes me happy are the bees and butterfly's returning and doing their job and the blue finches making homes in their nest boxes. The feel of the soil now the sun has warmed it up and the buds showing on my early summer clematis But the real happiness is just being in my garden
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Nature doing its thing is a wonder to me each and every year. You plant a seed or young plant, and watch the metamorphosis unfold.
I particularly love those chance or unexpected moments when you catch a glimpse of something - maybe a plant combination, maybe the weather and light making something look picture-perfect, or finding that a plant has flowered or appeared that you weren’t expecting.
I love the moment I open the bottom of a compost bin I haven't peaked at for a year and find chocolate cakey, crumbly, sweet smelling, forest floor. I do a little dance.
But what makes me happy are the bees and butterfly's returning and doing their job and the blue finches making homes in their nest boxes.
The feel of the soil now the sun has warmed it up and the buds showing on my early summer clematis
But the real happiness is just being in my garden