
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?
I have a picture in my mind of all the perfect new planters and trees and large compost bins I want in my yard, I just can't summon up the energy to get any of that done.
I'd also like a new carport and a permanent roof over my deck. And maybe a remodelled kitchen (but that isn't gardening)🤔
Dreams, all just dreams.
Every step you take,
FB reels, the algorithms are feeding me gardening reels.
I think I just like to buy the plants, in hopes of a dream garden.
However, the two rose bushes I bought had to be returned.
They couldn't be planted in time, and dH had broken tooth issues,
taking up extra time, so I did return them.
Always thinking of ideas as I scroll through landscaping and gardening techniques.
If only I could move around as fast as the videos on speed and fix my front yard in 20 minutes.
I fed the wild birds a few times by throwing out seed. Something grew, 3-4 plants of something unknown. Looks like a big weed, tall now about 24 inches. That was so fast! Wonder, what is it, maybe a sunflower...
Because people annoy me
And I am mean.
If I'm feeling blue
I don't need to see friends
I just need to see green.
Oh, you think I'm talking money
No, I spent all that on plants.
If you invite me to a public event
I'll tell you I can't.
Hm, I wonder what they could be eating 🤔
(google, google google)
Oh of course, I should have known. They're eating all my grass seed 🙄
This will make planning easier.
I enjoyed watching that over 5 times already!
The neighbor is encroaching and planting invasive plants. Boundaries will be going up.
The one small crocus we had in years past did not come up, but the paper white Narcissus have spread around. There is a few gophers.
Good fences make good neighbors.
No one has posted here since October?
New Spring plants, left to die in the wind...
Jasmine bush
Scotch Broom
The indoors Boston Fern has lived four days!
It's yellow blossoms are full, looking good.
This plant is seasonal and I have not had any success bringing them back the next year. Not sure if they are supposed to come back.
Can a frog be a house pet?
Bright and perky, (characteristic of the other bird), it flew behind my husband as he was filling the bowl with sun flower seeds. Have not seen it for just under a month.
We never saw them again.
Nature can be harsh, and when humans interfere with nature, it is not only harsher, it could be criminal. There are laws in place to protect nesting birds. Of course I am fighting the sadness, but gaining acceptance instead of anger.
When I first moved here there was a black feral cat who attacked a bird at my front porch. A neighbor took it in a plastic bag and threw it in the dumpster. I rescued it, took it to the animal shelter, who said it was alive and would be okay. My neighbors hated me ever since, even though I never came against them or told them what happened, or that it was against the law to dump the bird into the dumpster, as told to me by Animal Control.
What is unique is how the orange cape honeysuckle blooms and thrives, no matter what we are doing to neglect it. And the Bouganvillia, never growing more than two feet, is again thriving with blooms.
So good of you to take into account the wishes of your Kitty Golden.
ITRR,
We had morning doves trying to nest on a tiny ledge on our front porch, twice.
A squirrel got the eggs, the birds moved to a better place, and I stopped feeding the squirrels and the birds back then. I was willing to feed the blue Jay parents, and they came by for food and water, but have since left.
cw - Love frogs!!! I'm glad you saved that little one. Love hostas too.
Wondering what to do with my pots of grass for the kitty that have lasted all summer. I think I'll leave them be and replace them next spring. She is very attached to them and doesn't like me doing anything to them except water them.