Two of My Mother’s Flowers
One of my earliest spiritual memories is standing in my mother’s rose garden when a butterfly landed on my shoulder. I felt just like another one of her flowers. I don’t think I inherited her green thumb, but I did inherit my love of gardening from her.
I love gardening for these reasons.
1. I like to get my hands dirty.
2. I feel as if I’m creating a giant mosaic using all of the elements of art especially form, color and texture.
3. A garden is always changing and never done.
4. Pulling weeds is meditative and gives other plants room to grow.
5. I can lose track of time and space while being in nature.
6. I feel closer to God.
7. It raises my spirits.
After gardening I like to sit back relax and enjoy the beauty. Over time it’s wonderful to watch flowers as they bloom and birds and insects interact with them. It’s fun to find surprises also. It’s great to be able to pick flowers for bouquets or vegetables to put in salads.
Do you like to garden too?
Alstroemeria
Bougainvilleas
Succulents
Six Roses from my Garden
Tomato
Love the photo of you, Mom, and the Gladiolus!
Les, I know. Can you believe it?
I love that photo of you and your mom! All your reasons for loving to garden resonate with me as well. I also loved mt huge vegetable garden (back in the day) because I knew I was giving my family healthy food to eat. Even now I’ve found a way to have a garden by using containers and clay pots on my patio. Nature is always a little piece of heaven.
I agree nature is heaven on earth.
I “inherited” my love of gardening from my mother in law, Martha. My garden, like my art, goes thru patches of chaos, struggle and beauty, too_ but I don’t have a choice, I have to be ‘in’ it!
I remember Martha and what a good daughter-in-law you were to her. You’ve never been afraid to be in it!
I love having part of your garden, the aloes, in my garden. It gives us another connection since I think of you when I look at them.
That is so sweet, Lisa. Thanks!
I love to garden for the same reasons, Jill. And it’s so satisfying when a flower blooms or a vegetable grows. Gardening is very grounding and helps me feel connected.
Thanks for reminding us of alll the benefits from gardening. I’ve never considered myself a gardener, even when Tom and I kept a garden for a few years in Jamul, but I love playing around with flowers, plants, and like you, getting my hands dirty. My gardening now is limited to those few house plants I keep and the occasional visit to someone else’s garden. Yours is beautiful. So are you.
Thanks, Judy. You are welcome to come enjoy my garden with me anytime.
Ahhhh. I got started with Mom’s roses and much later, as an adult, got her to join me as a American Rose Society Judge and Consulting Rosarian. I stopped when the consulting rosarian test required I talk about recommending pesticides because by then I didn’t use them.
Barbara, I’m glad you don’t use pesticides. I don’t either. I use worm castings instead!
I l love gardening for many of the same reasons. I grew up on a farm so most gardening was vegetables, but in my adult life I had both. Living now in a condo I can only do pot planting. So I will be content with that. Happy gardening.
Edith, Happy gardening to you too. I hope you still have the succulents going that the girls brought you back from California.
I had them until we moved a year ago. They were sooo large and beautiful I was able to use parts of them to make a 2nd grouping, but sadly they didn’t survive the move. Thank you for sharing.
Next time the girls come to visit me I’ll have them bring you back some startings.