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Why do you garden?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Creating and surrounding yourself colour
    I try to create a garden that I can relax in - but then I see a weed.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    Success / satisfaction of watching your plants grow
    1) Success / satisfaction of watching your plants grow
    Yes, that's it. I am very competitive. I want to be good at what I do. I like to have something to be proud of.
    2) Creativity / learning in practice or Creating and surrounding yourself colour
    Garden design and planting design as a creative outlet.
    3) 
    Being outside
  • K67K67 Posts: 2,506
    B3 said:
    I try to create a garden that I can relax in - but then I see a weed.
    I know the feeling!
    Though I have always said that gardening stands between me and depression
  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    It would be good....in my opinion....if everyone was made to work on allotments when they leave school or Uni for 2 years minimum then at least they could experience Real Life before they joined the Rat race.

    Yes I know I am a a Dreamer..............but when I Rule the World !!
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    edited February 2021
    For me, it's definitely a way to keep in contact with nature and is a temporary escape from the human condition.  The stresses caused by the relentless news of general human misdoings and those triggered by a highly technical day job just fade away when I step out there.  I've always found room for gardening, even when I was in my early 20s and spent almost every non-working hour (and almost every penny) in a pub, I still found time to garden.  I think some folk might call it 'instant Zen'.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • I like the poll, but there's a multitude of reasons I garden ... impossible to pick just one! Is it possible to have a poll that allows selection of more than one option? As you've added more options in the second post, perhaps collate more reasons first?
    Agree - I need to tick more than one box
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Just because I like it
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Being outside
    For me its being outside ......particularly in all weathers.  My non gardening friends only spend time outside if the sun is shining and the temperatures are over 20C.  And then they sit still.  They’re missing out on so much. ☀️🌦💦❄️
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Success / satisfaction of watching your plants grow
    I appreciate we can't pick more than one. (Took me a few minutes to realise).

    1. Success / satisfaction of watching your plants grow.
    2.Supporting wildlife.
    3.Creativity / learning in practice.
    4.Creating and surrounding yourself with colour

    My choice of three and four go hand in hand for me. If creativity means trying to make (badly) woven or bent sticks for plant supports, or the naff path /lawn edging of old bricks that has gone all wobbly and cracks and spalls in frost, creative recycling that'll do for now or this season or three.

    Fire said:
    For me gardening is glaringly not relaxing, I get very little sense of personal success, I'm never bored,

      I am almost never bored out there. But you should sometimes have to step back and have a bash at feeling some personal success even though it is not perfect or the way you would really like or planned. 
    Most of all . It is a better addiction than some I can think of. :)
    BenCotto said:. Please excuse the conceit in saying this but I also get a tremendous buzz when friends visit and say how much they admire the garden and what we have achieved.
      There is nothing wrong with that at all. Having someone admire something you have grown, it is a nice feeling, whether it is from someone who does not garden, or from someone who does.  That possibly is the biggest buzz or conceit ;)

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