The garden is such a magical place . It helps us all deal with the bad things in our life. Each and every time I go into my garden I feel a happiness come over me, all it asks from me is a little care and attention and gives so very much in return.
"Digging a rich loam is one of life's great sensual pleasures"- Monty Don.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It's that half hour a day in spring between feeding the kids and going to work where I get out and do some planting or weeding. Or the snatched hour in summer on the bench, oblivious to the neighbours, watching the finches and tits on the feeders and the bees on the flowers. Sunny days and barbecues.
a change of life, hit 40 just got married and had a baby and then started on my garden and bonsai
hard to keep up with it all with work and baby but it is my escapism from the London rat race
my mum cant believe after all these years i blossomed my passion for gardening and she has become quite envious if what i done in a short amount of time in a rented house
i love it now, even check nightly with a torch to ensure all is ok
Maybe I'm weird, but my garden is as much me as my mind and body. I must be one of the few gardeners that doesn't like anyone 'in my space'. Only the birds and hedgehogs can come and go as they please....oh yes...and my wife (well she might read this)
I am a newbee male gardener aged 35 with a 140ft blank canvas garden to begin building a dream garden who has a stressful job and family to look after and suffers from anxiety and not having any patience
It is the challenge of making something special, with the added benefit to me for health reasons
It has also brought me even closer to my mum as her garden is small and limited and is enjoying seeing what I am trying to achieve whilst also having a topic for conversation that wasn't there between us before.
For me my garden is my stress relief from my busy job. I love going out and pottering when I get home from work. Plus I love how huge plants grow from tiny seeds. I only started gardening 3 years ago and I had to tame the wilderness that was my other half's garden but it now provides me with beautiful flowers in the summer and lots of fruit in the autumn.
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The garden is such a magical place . It helps us all deal with the bad things in our life. Each and every time I go into my garden I feel a happiness come over me, all it asks from me is a little care and attention and gives so very much in return.
Runnybeak thanks for the hug
"Digging a rich loam is one of life's great sensual pleasures"- Monty Don.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It's that half hour a day in spring between feeding the kids and going to work where I get out and do some planting or weeding. Or the snatched hour in summer on the bench, oblivious to the neighbours, watching the finches and tits on the feeders and the bees on the flowers. Sunny days and barbecues.
a change of life, hit 40 just got married and had a baby and then started on my garden and bonsai
hard to keep up with it all with work and baby but it is my escapism from the London rat race
my mum cant believe after all these years i blossomed my passion for gardening and she has become quite envious if what i done in a short amount of time in a rented house
i love it now, even check nightly with a torch to ensure all is ok
Maybe I'm weird, but my garden is as much me as my mind and body. I must be one of the few gardeners that doesn't like anyone 'in my space'. Only the birds and hedgehogs can come and go as they please....oh yes...and my wife (well she might read this)
It is the challenge of making something special, with the added benefit to me for health reasons
It has also brought me even closer to my mum as her garden is small and limited and is enjoying seeing what I am trying to achieve whilst also having a topic for conversation that wasn't there between us before.
For me my garden is my stress relief from my busy job. I love going out and pottering when I get home from work. Plus I love how huge plants grow from tiny seeds. I only started gardening 3 years ago and I had to tame the wilderness that was my other half's garden but it now provides me with beautiful flowers in the summer and lots of fruit in the autumn.
Solace, joy, back break and like Stevo4 my space