Your own private sanctum. Your Backyard Garden
Posted: Monday, October 24, 2011
by Montyr
Green Thumb Gardening Products
In this crazy, hurried world we live in there is one strategy that always works for returning to a peaceful existence. That is- enjoying a garden.
It doesn’t even have to be our own garden. After all, gardens are meant to be shared!
Don’t we always feel better after enjoying the beautiful sidewalk gardens of our neighbors or after visiting the flower gardens of a local park?
For those of us who have an affinity with nature in our blood, a backyard garden or at least a patio filled with wonderful natural delights is as absolutely essential as breathing, sleeping and eating.
Just being able to dip our fingers into the energy of beautiful soil or to caress or be caressed by a flower that we helped to express its natural beauty strips away all the cares and worries of the world outside in that moment.
And to eat a strawberry or some lettuce that grew just because we orchestrated the creation of its life! What better moment is there in life than that first taste?
What makes a garden for you? Why is it so important that you would dedicate so much space for it in your yard? And so much time and responsibility? For you know that the moment your spade broke the earth, you were making a commitment to something much larger than you that could not tend to itself, a commitment not just for this moment but for a life time.
Just like children when they are new and small, a garden requires constant supervision and guidance. Choosing the right combination of plants, turning the soil just right, adding just the right nutrients and water and praying for the right amount of sunshine requires constant vigilance or it will all turn to nothing.
I am sure that most of us who love nature and love gardening cannot put a finger on why we garden. It would probably make out lives so much easier if we did not. But we do. We just have to have plants around us so we feel connected. It is just an unwritten rule that there has to be a garden, even a little one, just so we can enjoy and be part of the beauty of nature.
It is the garden that helps us to relax and feel one with ourselves and the demands of our lives. The garden lets us step out for a bit so that when we return to life outside the garden, we are more prepared to cope with the mundane world.
We know this is true in society on the whole as well. We know this because we see every year the creation of new social gardens and community gardens so that those of us who have elected to live in apartments can find our moment of peace and connection as well.
Our whole social fabric becomes healthier and more vibrant every time someone signs up for their little plot in the community garden. Are they not saying “We want to be a part of the all as well?” “We want to recognize and liberate our sense of connection to the earth.”
We just have to plant that one little flower and see it bloom. We have to plant that one little plant so we can eat it knowing that we nurtured it to maturity.
It is just human nature. Those of us who choose to be gardeners are fortunate, for it is one part of our lives that the fight has left to be replaced by the inner peace of knowing that we have a place and time for being one with our all.
Let the world carry on as it does, as long as I can have my garden!
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