I expect some will stick at it, maybe not to the same extent but a bit. If you introduce 10000 people to a hobby I would expect a few will carry on with it.
We've never had a lockdown here not in the same way but even so many people have been and still are working from home, I certainly saw a lot more roadside stands with veg about the place than there were in the last few years.
Gardening was my dads passion and he spent all his spare time and then retirement on it.having had dementia now for over 4 years its gradually become something he cant do.his beloved greenhouse he hasn't visited,so I cleaned it out and potted some plants up for him.but today he said he hadn't seen it.so sad.but I keep doing his garden hoping it will give him some pleasure.
@the tidy gardener A very sad story,you are being very supportive,and I'm sure at some point he will see all you are doing and that it will be of help to him. Well done to you.
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It's nice how gardening can connect us to the ones we love @the tidy gardener I think a lot of my grandparents who were farmers and with who I used to spent my summers as a child. They opened my mind to what the land can do...not something a child surrounded by concrete would have the chance to experience otherwise. They've both gone but I'd like to think they'd approve all my pottering about.
My garden was a wasteland for 18 months because of extensive building work, thankfully I was able to do it bit by bit as things on the house progressed and outside was less and less of a builder's yard.
So, new to gardening properly in March as impossible before, but the lockdown and glorious weather came at the perfect time. The joy I have had, and continue to have, tending to my plants (so much more rewarding than children, I keep telling my teenage son ) has been wonderful.
I have two parts to the garden as the plot is L-shaped. One is more English garden, and the other exotic / tropical. It is a lot of work, but definitely worth it. I have been bingeing on Gardeners World and any other gardening programme, doing tons and tons of research on plant care, propagation, sowing etc. on the internet, and learning SO much.
Here is a new gardener that will keep going and I am sure I am not alone
So great to hear you've enjoyed it so much @SophieK it's so easy to spent time moaning about everything, when we can get so much happiness from somewhere so near.
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A very sad story,you are being very supportive,and I'm sure at some point he will see all you are doing and that it will be of help to him. Well done to you.
The joy I have had, and continue to have, tending to my plants (so much more rewarding than children, I keep telling my teenage son
I have been bingeing on Gardeners World and any other gardening programme, doing tons and tons of research on plant care, propagation, sowing etc. on the internet, and learning SO much.