
When I was a little girl, I used to love watching “Gardeners’ World” (and still do, actually) with my Nan and Grandad. The presenter at that time was the wonderful Percy Thrower, another Shropshire resident like my grandparents, and those evenings spent in the company of my beloved grandparents and the gentle voice of Percy Thrower stared a love of gardening in me.

It’s only in the past two years that my love of gardening has been able to translate itself into the creation of my own garden. For some reason, it was assumed that I didn’t like it, the dirt, the labour, the bugs… However, this misunderstanding is something I have endeavoured to put right.

Also – the link between gardening and the benefits to mental health are undoubted. That veritable green-fingered gardening god Monty Don and the brilliantly brave and lovely Rachel De Thame have both in recent programmes talked about the emotional connection with their garden. I found it very moving.

I am perhaps a somewhat chaotic gardener. I start out with the best of intentions (“Why don’t you make a plan Mum?”) but then I get carried away digging, or something, and I forget what I’ve planted where… It’s like my birthday every day in my garden when Spring arrives, as there are new surprises sprouting up all over, much to my delight.

I love the stately beauty of tulips, the robust colours of dahlias, but perhaps my favourite, well, in this year just gone at any rate, have been the petunias and ornamental grasses. The grasses bring a lovely flow and movement to the garden which I find ineffably soothing, and after a stressful day, there is nothing more I like than to come home and dig a few holes, plant some things, tend to others and communicate my love for my garden, watched, usually, by my four faithful girly gardening buddies.
Not unsurprisingly, one of my favourite books is “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and I would like to finish with this quote:
“If you look the right way you can see that the whole world is a garden”
What a lovely post. I love my garden too but I must admit to being a bit of a disorganised and chaotic in my methods. Happy gardening!
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Thank you very much – I think there’s a lot of pleasure to be had from letting the garden do its own thing with a little help…that’s my excuse anyway! 🙂
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Yep, sounds like a good excuse to me!
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Your garden came out beautifully. Happy Sunday
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Thank you, dear friend, hope all is well with you xx
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😊I am alive and so that’s that. I hope you are not too busy😉
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What lovely flowers and grasses (I love grasses!) in your garden. Well done! 😀
I also like The Secret Garden book, and film. Enchanting. 😀
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Thank you very much – it’s been wonderful and I enjoy every minute spent outside. Today’s plan is to go out and gather up all the fallen leaves for leaf mould..!
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Lovely 🙂
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inspiring!💕
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Thank you 🙂 xxx
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What a marvelous garden, dear Samantha!
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Thank you very much dear friend – I love it!
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My pleasure!
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Such a pretty garden! Your style of working your garden is rather like mine…haphazard and what will be is what will be,MOL! I like your cosmos and those grasses sure are like kitty toys!
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Thank you very much – lol – it has such a varied microclimate it’s a matter of working out what goes best where..the cosmos have been fab and Charlie is a little too fond of my ornamental grasses…:)
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A beautiful garden. I’m already missing Summer, and Winter has not yet begun. 😦
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Thanks Rob, it’s given me a lot of pleasure this year and although things are closing down for winter there are still little remnants left of summer hare and there in the more sheltered parts. 🙂
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Your garden is beautiful!!
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Thank you very much – it has a mind of its own, but then I think most gardens do lol! 🙂 xx
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