with my ename I was way ahead of the survey. My baby broad beans are just waiting for my early potatoes to be ready to go with my fish, which I shall garnish with my own grown tomatoes and herbs and salad leaves. I shall have strawberries and ice-cream for dessert. That is enough to make anyone happy. I feel so useful , a good member of the human race , being able to grow food and lovely flowers to brighten our street.
I enjoy being out gardening i spend a couple of hours a day messing about in the garden. It's a nice thing to do when im outside all im thinking about is the garden everything else on my mind goes.
I think that the persuit of gardening is a reflection of a persons character and we all seem to have a sense of well being.
My Father always used to say the love of gardening is also a love of nature. I would add that its also a love of life itself.
There can be so much going on with our lives but to have our gardens to escape to gives the chance to unwind and forget about our worries for a little while.
For me gardening is about being outside and observing the change in the seasons - seeing plants grow, flower or crop and dieback. A chance to lose yourself in something much bigger and more important than our small lives - the natural world (which is so beautiful and calming). A moment to stop, look, breath deeply, listen and feel the air around you and just enjoy the moment. Gardeners will be even happier if they slow down and stop being too busy in their gardens. It's a privilege to be a gardener in our man made world, we should savour every moment of it - don't get worried about keeping it too tidy (the 'housework' issue) a messy garden is good for the wildlife!
. Despite what one might think it is quite difficult to get anyone to weed etc for a reasonable price. Most "professional gardeners" just want to cut lawns once a week and keep hedges in check. When I did get someone in he pulled up one or two plants and broke a window while strimming! Yes I love my garden and getting a new plant I haven't got but it is a burden too.
Awww Linda you need me!!!! I don't do lawns (unless pretty small) or hedges. I am a border worker. Advertise or look for a female gardener. We aren't obsessed with lawns and hedges and can bring your garden back to life
I feel truly blessed. To have an overwhelming passion from an early age that can then be a career is a rare thing. I love to play in the garden anyones garden! I am happiest when a customer loves what I have done...rejuvenated an old but loved shrub,filled a border with flowers where they thought nothing could grow, created a garden out of nothing or brought an overgrown mess back under control. Many of my so called customers have become my friends and I can't do enough for them. To see them happy makes me happy.
Gardening encompasses everything that the heart and soul needs. Too many people are removed from the natural world. Too busy and caught up in unimportant things to stop and look for a moment. I while away many an hour just watching the insects do there thing. Watch the birds collecting their twigs for the first nest of the season. Listen to the baby birds calling their parents. Could wax lyrical for ever...but won't lol.
I would like to leave this world having hopefully made it a little prettier in exchange for all the happiness and well being it has given me (insert satisfied smiley)
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MotherB you've said it so well, just what I feel. But I would add that it's also very satisfying to eat the veg you have grown.
I enjoy being out gardening i spend a couple of hours a day messing about in the garden. It's a nice thing to do when im outside all im thinking about is the garden everything else on my mind goes.
I think that the persuit of gardening is a reflection of a persons character and we all seem to have a sense of well being.
My Father always used to say the love of gardening is also a love of nature. I would add that its also a love of life itself.
There can be so much going on with our lives but to have our gardens to escape to gives the chance to unwind and forget about our worries for a little while.
gets you in touch with the inner you and in a sense the world you live with.
For me gardening is about being outside and observing the change in the seasons - seeing plants grow, flower or crop and dieback. A chance to lose yourself in something much bigger and more important than our small lives - the natural world (which is so beautiful and calming). A moment to stop, look, breath deeply, listen and feel the air around you and just enjoy the moment. Gardeners will be even happier if they slow down and stop being too busy in their gardens. It's a privilege to be a gardener in our man made world, we should savour every moment of it - don't get worried about keeping it too tidy (the 'housework' issue) a messy garden is good for the wildlife!
I would love to get on with my garden but I still can't get my left hand working,being left handed dosen't help with any job.
Awww Linda you need me!!!! I don't do lawns (unless pretty small) or hedges. I am a border worker. Advertise or look for a female gardener. We aren't obsessed with lawns and hedges and can bring your garden back to life
I feel truly blessed. To have an overwhelming passion from an early age that can then be a career is a rare thing. I love to play in the garden anyones garden! I am happiest when a customer loves what I have done...rejuvenated an old but loved shrub,filled a border with flowers where they thought nothing could grow, created a garden out of nothing or brought an overgrown mess back under control. Many of my so called customers have become my friends and I can't do enough for them. To see them happy makes me happy.
Gardening encompasses everything that the heart and soul needs. Too many people are removed from the natural world. Too busy and caught up in unimportant things to stop and look for a moment. I while away many an hour just watching the insects do there thing. Watch the birds collecting their twigs for the first nest of the season. Listen to the baby birds calling their parents. Could wax lyrical for ever...but won't lol.
I would like to leave this world having hopefully made it a little prettier in exchange for all the happiness and well being it has given me (insert satisfied smiley)
Nearly changed my mind the other day when wrestling with bindweed in the heat!