
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?
Banana Trees are still doing fine.
Thank you for the suggestion of Baker Creek Heirloom. I am going to check it out.
I guess that is all for now.
Those ghost apples look beautiful, like delicate blown glass
Been planning my spring pollinator garden, looking forward to that.
Just looking forward to spring period.
I am thinking about buying some bulbs now to plant for flowering in the spring. Buy garden hoses. New dirt yard.
GA, where are you?🌼🌺🌾
I am harvesting my 1st tomatoes since early summer, lettuce and peppers looking good, potatoes go in this week.
Our bees do not seem to be fairing well in the cold. Since we are novices at this not sure how to help them. My Dad would know. :(
It is sunny today, plants are surviving.....
Guess your garden will be full with "snow sculptures" ?
Today, there are blooming paperwhite narcissus in a pot in the garden. The one rose bush has multiple blooms after feeding it, and the bougainvillia has been "sacrificed" as the designated eat me plant, giving it no treatment. I feel bad for it.
The two cape honeysuckle have orange blooms all over.
Guess I will be satisfied with that. Amazing how I want to add more 'n more plants, but it is coming on winter! It is all clean and neat, leaves swept up.
We can have coffee out there now. Must make extreme efforts to enjoy some of my life, chill out, not work so hard. I am going to have hot chocolate in my coffee this morning.
I've brought them all in and will pop them out again when the weather gets more seasonable, I noticed that a forgotten geranium still looks OK so I think they will be too.
I wouldn't despair because I've never yet known crocus, snowdrops or ordinary daffodils to succumb. I know Canadian winters are in a different league, but even in the one we had Of Famous Memory -
- ah. You mean Fahrenheit. I forgot.
Phewf. The only idea I have is that you can get low wattage heaters for garden sheds? They're sealed pipes with an element running through them, completely safe. But I'm not sure how much frost they can keep off.
Our banana trees are doing well in the greenhouse. Hopeful about them.
And, Star of Bethlehem.
Shmeshque, People have supported me about my bougainvillias for three years!
Ask what you want, every season is different!
Turns out, the grasshopper did not do it! CM was right about it being caterpillars ate the plant, and I must spray it. Non-toxic stuff hopefully.