
It's become clear to me through posts and PMs that there are some gardeners here just waiting for the chance to discuss gardening!
So, I was thinking... how do you use gardening, or how does it affect you if you need a break, need some respite, need to relax, need inspiration....how do you use it as a therapy tool in caregiving?
What are your activities: Do you go out and pull weeds, read a magazine, design new beds? Look through garden catalogues? Go to garden stores?
And what interests have you added to your gardening? Visit estate or garden displays? Do you go to garden shows?
Does anyone design and plant Knot Gardens? Raised bed planters? Assistive gardens? Pollinator gardens (and have you thought of ways to help the bees and butterflies?)
Are your gardens primarily for pleasure or food, or a mix of both? Do you grow plants for medicinal purposes? Which ones, how do you harvest and process them? Any suggestions?
Do you grow plants that can be used in crafts, such as grapevines for wreaths and lavender for lavender wands? Do you make herbal products such as creams, lotions, chapstick?
What else can you share about gardening and the means in which it nurtures your soul?
The municipal leaf/yard waste collection ends next week and needless to say I haven't been raking, but then most of the leaves are still on the trees....
Rain gutter?
It drives me crazy that gutter is slowly creeping into use in advertising Canada, and that spell check tried to tell me that eavestrough wasn't a word.
(And it makes me even crazier when my great nephew insists the alphabet ends with zee😠. Nuh-uh.... it's ZED!!!)
What do you all think, must I bring everything in now? (the longer I can put it off the better because I don't really have a cold room in my basement)
Full on snow here now. Everything is getting buried in it including my front driveway. Snow Angels -where are you?
I do have a slightly cooler basement store room where I keep my potatoes, onions etc. I've wintered over stuff before but they tend to sprout by March, which is much too early.
Cannas and amaryllis would be lovely indoors for Easter.
Thank you in advance :-)
I have a great picture of a Palo Verde tree in full bloom and it can't be posted here, just doesn't work, so I have experience with that :-)
"You can't plant flowers
🌸🌸🌸🍀🍀🍀🌸🌸🌸
if you haven't botany."
My grandmother would never have done any work in the garden. She made fabulous fig preserves from their fig tree.
The neighbors had a pecan tree and they would trade the fig preserves for pecan pies! Nice deal!
So happy to have paperwhite narcissus blooming along the driveway.
These just pop up yearly, more each time. I think the squirrels may spread the bulbs. Or maybe it just grows and spreads that way.
With all the recent rains, people are saying that the poppies will be abundant this year.