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?
Bees and other insects are active during the Spring season.
Her friend says that if she takes original scent Irish Spring soap and rubs it inside of her door the bees will stay away. Anyone ever heard of this?
I looked online and saw that people use Irish Spring for deer repellent. Hmmmm, interesting…
I think of GA every time I post on her thread. I hope that she is doing well.
At one point in time, her dream was to retire in France!
I spotted a couple of yellow crocus in the middle of my back yard courtesy of the squirrels, now if only the sun would come out so they open up.
I love the deep pink color! I like planting in pots. It’s a lot easier for me to do. My husband does the planting in the yard.
What a spectacular garden and documentary on Francis Cabot’s life in Quebec. Twenty acres of gardens that are Just stunningly beautiful!
You should complete your project. Sounds like it will be great when it is finished.
I hate to say it but my daughter did the same thing recently. She found two great patio chairs at the thrift shop. She keeps saying that she needs cushions for them. She has yet to make or buy the cushions.
Sometimes, we procrastinate!
Still too cold here most of the time to think about getting anything done.⛄⛄❄❄
We have a balcony off a wall of windows. I’ve got soil and cocoa fibre pots to start Morning Glory seeds (bright pink and blue). I hope they’ll cover the railing if I put a big square planter at each end.
I have a table and chairs that I usually sit at with my cup of coffee in the morning.
I am thinking about a rocking chair that I saw not long ago. The only time I ever used a rocking chair was when my girls were young. Not sure why I am desiring to rock again but I just might go buy a couple of rocking chairs. I’m getting old! LOL 😆
I’m hoping that I didn’t prune the branches too far back and hoping that it will bloom it’s heart out like it usually does every year.
We certainly don’t have a lot of weather below freezing, so I usually don’t have to cover my plants in the garden.
I love the blue flowers on a plumbago plant. It seems to attract a lot of butterflies which I enjoy seeing while sitting on my patio.
all the beauty around us god has carefully planned to hold us in awe. Thank you for listening to me go on and on!!!!!😂❤️
Tulips are so pretty!
I like easy gardening, such as tending to our hanging ferns on patio and porch. Planting flowers in pots near front door and on patio.
My husband does the planting in front and back yard.
Getting lunch afterwards! Beautiful day here, high in the upper 70’s!
It is probably too late to plant daffodils in socal. I think the bulbs need a minimum of something like six weeks in the cold winter ground.
How do you know said the old oak tree,
I just saw a daffodil
Dancing with a fairy on a windy hill.
I ran across my very special magazine "The English Garden", recommended by you, Garden Artist. Thank you so much!
My subscription ended in December, but it is still a pleasure to look over these.
Better than therapy, and easier than the actual gardening work, I can still dream.
Wondering where and when I can plant some daffodils in a hurry for my neighbor to see. My March 2022 magazine has tulips galore, and jonquils.
Maybe the English call daffodils tulips? I don't know.
What I do know is the daffodil is a bulb, not a seed. So, somewhere, somehow, the daffodil is ready to bloom in the spring. I just have to get my hands on some now.
Poppies are wonderful too. I especially like the big oriental coral colour ones, but all are great.
glad - I leave my seed heads in place both for the birds and also for them to spread naturally. I have many delphiniums seeded from one plant. I am not one for a very structured garden. I like a natural look. Once I had a bed in front with dianthus, flax, violas, and I can't remember what else, just all mixed in with the juniper and looking after themselves from year to year. People stopped and looked at it. In fact part of my lawn was purple from the escaped violas a few years. I really would have liked the whole lawn to be violas if I could have done it but they died back.
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.