
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?
These are the ones I tried to give away.
All I did to "garden" was to move them out in the open for moving.
Would love to send you some cactus CWillie. But I cannot get near without them biting me. Cannot repot them because of this, and hubs has refused.
There is a gallon ceramic pot, growing overboard in what should be a 24 inch planter. This is one of the bloomin ones! Maybe cactus like to suffer hardship.
Lol. They were removed from the side my neighbor is on-she gave permission to put them there. We are taking over her gardening in exchange for favors. But now, our gardening will suffer....hubs cannot do everything.
Also, today, I am unable to take bright sunshine( it really hurts my eyes and dries my skin) even with sunglasses and sun block. Getting old is not for the faint of heart.
And then there are all the perennials I keep trying to cram in my borders: where can I fit some delphinium... lupine... ooo some campanula would be lovely... did you know there are purple day lilies?... I wonder where I could put some perennial alyssum... I definitely need more primroses ....
(P.S. - the mustard greens were a mistake - thought I was getting leaf lettuce. What do you do with mustard greens?)
It was actually the bee whose image I was trying to capture. I am in two minds about whether to look it up because I am half afraid it will turn out to be called an orange-bottomed black bee, and I could kind of figure that out for myself.
Glad wants us to plant goat heads?
My job is done here.
Still snow in May, my avatar, we might finally be done.🌻🌺🍅🌲🌼🌸🐦
I yelled, HEY!
Asked hubs to stop that gardener.
The gardeners truck filled with tools drove by again. I jumped up from the chair I was sitting in, icing my lower back from the pain of pulling a 1 ft. x 1 ft. square area of weeds.
I yelled, HEY! HEY!
Hubs starts mumbling how the gardener won't stop, how the gardener won't understand, how I would need to tell him how much I am willing to pay, how I should speak more simply, how he would not understand if I asked for "an estimate".
Gardener starts tomorrow, $20 bucks per month to pull weeds!
A neighbor, who had called the gardener the day before, (reason he was i n the neighborhood) walks over to talk to him.
Yay!
Good for you! :)
Great Job Send, Way to hustle.
My younger daughter loves this fruit and it is very expensive at the market ($6-$8 a pound), so I decided to buy a tree. Actually, I bought 3 trees, not at the same time though. The first one cost me $60 but died after a few months, the second one $50 also died, the last one $25 actually lives and give fruits. Woohoo!!!
Polarbear,
Fruit sounds good! You must really love your daughter to buy that many trees
to get the fruit!