Sometimes, @Emerion we do fall out of love for certain things, but not necessarily for ever.
For example, I had a love of castles, and collected old postcards. For some reason, I found myself losing my interest - probably had something to do with a certain young lady!! Then, from somewhere, my new wife was given a collection of old castle postcards. She didn't want them, and offered them to me. I had to buy more albums, and make space, but my interest was reignited.
Yes, find a gardener for a year or two, if you can afford it. But have a plan for him or her. In setting out the plan, you may find your interest returns. That can be because the gardener has done a great job, or you believe you can do better. Either way, it might light those fires again. Or not.
We moved 2 years ago from a house with a large back and front garden with mature hedges and trees. I’ve always loved gardening and just being outside but became very ill about 7 years ago so cannot do everything I used to hence the eventual move after 32 years there. We have a fairly large garden now but without the huge trees & hedges and the hill gardening I used to have to do. However there is not much in the way of flower borders here , it’s mostly lawn. I miss the large borders I had (but not the work) but have been getting a lot of pleasure from patio pots & planters which are much easier to manage. I also have raised veg planters which have worked well for me and kept us well supplied with really good veg and salad crops. I’m considering digging a flower bed on the lawn but so far common sense has prevailed as I’m aware that I will be adding more work for myself every year. Im not sure if my notes help the o.p. at all but pots & planters have helped me ….
This happens all the time to people. I gave up golf when I got bored with it then it was sailing for thirty years now it is gardening and indoor bowling. Gardening can be quite lonely at times like all my single handed sailing. Take a break and enjoy some social local activities then I am sure you will drift back into gardening.
I'm the same; my life was writing, for about ten years, and music, for about the same. Now it's all about plants - though always with the same community focus in all of the above. It feels odd to have reincarnations but I think they can enrich us and keep our brains learning and growing.
I am struggling to find the time for it just now - work got busy during the pandemic and hasn't let up since. I've had to change my expectations of it and myself. I'm letting most of it 'rewild' itself, I bought some really tough raised beds and drastically cut down the veg patch to what I can manage with far more limited time, planted perennials in most of my pots and force myself to let the weeds and the plants find their own balance rather than weeding the beds. I tend to do cutting back with a strimmer . It's not the garden I had in mind but it's absolutely full of wildlife. We've had brown hares in it this year as well as teeming with birds and dragonflies and weasels and foxes and I'm pretty sure there's a hedgehog about, too
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
My energy levels have decreased at the same time as my OH has had to stop doing the jobs he did in the garden - cutting the grass, trimming the hedges - and I have been busy on other things, so the garden has got away from me this year. Now there are too many big jobs and it is all a bit daunting. The weather hasn't helped. Even on nice gardening days when I haven't got anything else on I have found that I just want to relax.
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For example, I had a love of castles, and collected old postcards. For some reason, I found myself losing my interest - probably had something to do with a certain young lady!!
Then, from somewhere, my new wife was given a collection of old castle postcards. She didn't want them, and offered them to me. I had to buy more albums, and make space, but my interest was reignited.
Yes, find a gardener for a year or two, if you can afford it. But have a plan for him or her. In setting out the plan, you may find your interest returns. That can be because the gardener has done a great job, or you believe you can do better. Either way, it might light those fires again.
Or not.
Im not sure if my notes help the o.p. at all but pots & planters have helped me ….
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”