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?
Eating pineapple (the only natural occuring source of Bromelain) is the cure for those aches and pains.
Wondering....You gotta plant potatoes to get potatoes?
Why not just eat the ones you planted?
So I guess that about does it for now. I am tired, Hope all that also counts in the exercise department. Spring has/is arrived. Hallelujah!!!
The windows are even roaring from the wind, in places they never have before.
Putting back our decorative fence (after changing it for Christmas),
Dh had to tear out some overgrowth, and, credit to him....he moved around some pavers. He is very good at brickwork, fitting them in just right, but with arthritis and a bad back, he has to be stopped before he over does it.
So much to be done, and Spring is just around the corner-or is it already here?
I plan to go easy on him, and also not do what has hurt me before. I am sitting while gardening now.
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.