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Gardening on Our Own
Simon69
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I love the solitude of being with nature, amongst my annual challenges through the various seasons.
Training them and learning from them. Having my “moments” with them.
I do this alone for the pleasure it gives me when I have my successes, and then to be able to share my vista, my ongoing and ever changing palette, with family and visitors.
Is this what our collective pastime of gardening is about?
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I enjoy the solitude too. You can have deep and meaningful thoughts while committing herbicide!
I am just the same as Holly, lots of seeds and cuttings going on, love it out there on my own, we are miles from anywhere so completely peaceful. Days in the greenhouse are especially nice.
Wow, you have Buffalo pansy?!?!
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
No buffalo, but until a few years ago there were wild wallabies living on a hill not far from here
I don't have another person pansyface ..I know my place...
I rather like being on my own - to garden or otherwise. It's very satisfying
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have only recently "got into" gardening, starting about 5 years ago when our youngest was born, as I wanted my children to have a nice garden to be in. So unfortunately, with a dog, 2 cats and 2 children, gardening time for me is not very peaceful at times.
However, on the rare occasions when baby is sleeping and the other still at school, there is nothing nicer than being out in the garden, pottering and listening to the birds.
I wouldnt go that far Pansy, bu we do have sheep or cattle in the field, the odd tiny deer, fox and badgers. Plenty of pheasants.
I mostly garden without human company, but I'm rarely on my own for long. One or other of the cats will be along, to demand some more food, or to inspect my work, or to sit on the back of my legs when I'm kneeling, or try to pinch my kneeling mat. And as soon as fork or trowel touches soil, there will be a chicken or two, spying out grubs or worms and striking at the speed of light. They help with the digging too
The sheep keep watch from a distance and start shouting as soon as I rustle a plastic bag. They know sheep feed comes in one and don't know that they can also hold compost or leafmould or muck. But that is their contribution to my garden's wellbeing, so I can't be cross with them
Yes, love the solitude and just as well because the OH considers the garden to just be a place full of stingy, bitey, creepy-crawly, dirt-covered things which suits me fine!
When I'm not focused on the task in hand, my mind wanders between the wonders of the universe and the unbelievable complexity of life and evolution. I feel mentally refreshed (although often physically knackered!) when I come in after a good session in the garden.