Tag: the joy of gardening
One trip to your local botanical garden and it's easy to see that gardening is an art. Even my neighbor down the street seems to have mastered the idea of
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There's a lot for us to learn about gardening. But there's also a lot we can learn from our gardens. I've certainly learned some patience. And I'm pretty sure every gardener has
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Sharp. Prickly. Spiny. These aren't usually the words I associate with an indoor healing garden. As much as I love cacti, they aren't the plants I look to first when
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Do you have a little dirt under your nails? Maybe you have a bit of green on your hands from pulling weeds? Do you keep a stack of seed catalogs
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It's Spring as I write this and we've already harvested some early greens and a few root vegetables like radishes. Daffodils, tulips, and hellebore brought some much-needed color to the
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Do you keep a garden diary? I write some things down in my gardening calendar, like which variety of tomatoes I like the best or which flowers attracted the most
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I have a plant obsession. If you're reading this, I bet you know exactly what I mean. I'm not allowed to go into my favorite plant store more than a
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Like most gardeners, I experience gardening joy almost every time I walk into my garden. Admittedly, sometimes it feels more like gardening anxiety when I come across pests like aphids
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There are a few times during the year that I would say almost any garden is an enchanting garden. When the flowers are in full bloom, the foliage is lush
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As an idea, I think almost any garden is a meditative garden. Some, like Japanese rock gardens, are established with the intention that they will be a place of reflective
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