Gardening
Within the last year, I've 'discovered' a love for gardening. It started with wanting to add a little colour to our place.I'm proud to announce that I'm a flower mum. My babies are all doing well. Thank you.
I love love love all my babies. I never imagined that a blooming flower would bring me so much joy or that my heart would break at the sight of a wilting flower.
I promise, each flower has a personality...fiery, temperamental, attention seeker, fighter, sunny, you name it! Drama queen even.
I love running out to work in the morning and pausing to take them all in. Waking up, Saturday mornings to full blooms, seeing the butterflies and sometimes the bees, come by to get a whiff and to steal glorious nectar.
I even savour my knackered nights, returning from work yet still having to water them (of course I grumble and threaten to quit but courage I have not).
I love how rewarding gardening is. Give a plant some love and tender care and watch it spring to life over time.
To be honest, gardening has taught me some invaluable lessons:
Time: With time, every flower will bloom. This teaches me to be patient with myself and with others.
Care: In addition to time, gardening requires constant care - To be careful about myself. To realise that I require as much care to become and to give the same care to the people that mean the world to me.
Pruning: Dying plants need pruning (some, cos some are really just dead..lol). I was bewildered when the gardener recommended pruning. I didn't trust that the plants would survive all the pruning (they were dying anyway).
One of my greatest learnings is - irrespective of how uncomfortable and perhaps demoralising it may be, we all need pruning. You must be cut down to size to spring back to life (the comeback is always greater than the rebound). Believe me when I say there is a special glow to a plant back in bloom after a prune. Do not despise pruning. It is the realest check you need.
Blooming: Each flower will bloom in its own time. Some a day and others a year or more. And though they all bloom, each flower is unique in its splendor.
Do not compare yourself to others (except to make yourself better). You and your journey are unique and special. Your contemporaries may breakthrough in the morning but be rest assured that your breakthrough is afoot. And it will be uniquely magnificent. That the rose is beautiful does not take anything away from the orchids. They each are a pleasure to the yes and the sun shines on them equally. Be confident about your uniqueness.
Above all, gardening has taught me commitment. I'm not the kind to take on long term commitment (other than marriage...lol) particularly because I don't like to fail (story for another day). Anything, that requires consistent work and which I cannot guarantee continued interest does not appeal to me. But I took on gardening, with no real plan (except that I was spurred on not to fail else husband of mine would not let me live it down) and a year on, I'm loving it and still look forward to it.
xoxo
A glimpse will you?
I love love love all my babies. I never imagined that a blooming flower would bring me so much joy or that my heart would break at the sight of a wilting flower.
I promise, each flower has a personality...fiery, temperamental, attention seeker, fighter, sunny, you name it! Drama queen even.
I love running out to work in the morning and pausing to take them all in. Waking up, Saturday mornings to full blooms, seeing the butterflies and sometimes the bees, come by to get a whiff and to steal glorious nectar.
I even savour my knackered nights, returning from work yet still having to water them (of course I grumble and threaten to quit but courage I have not).
I love how rewarding gardening is. Give a plant some love and tender care and watch it spring to life over time.
To be honest, gardening has taught me some invaluable lessons:
Time: With time, every flower will bloom. This teaches me to be patient with myself and with others.
Care: In addition to time, gardening requires constant care - To be careful about myself. To realise that I require as much care to become and to give the same care to the people that mean the world to me.
Pruning: Dying plants need pruning (some, cos some are really just dead..lol). I was bewildered when the gardener recommended pruning. I didn't trust that the plants would survive all the pruning (they were dying anyway).
One of my greatest learnings is - irrespective of how uncomfortable and perhaps demoralising it may be, we all need pruning. You must be cut down to size to spring back to life (the comeback is always greater than the rebound). Believe me when I say there is a special glow to a plant back in bloom after a prune. Do not despise pruning. It is the realest check you need.
Blooming: Each flower will bloom in its own time. Some a day and others a year or more. And though they all bloom, each flower is unique in its splendor.
Do not compare yourself to others (except to make yourself better). You and your journey are unique and special. Your contemporaries may breakthrough in the morning but be rest assured that your breakthrough is afoot. And it will be uniquely magnificent. That the rose is beautiful does not take anything away from the orchids. They each are a pleasure to the yes and the sun shines on them equally. Be confident about your uniqueness.
Above all, gardening has taught me commitment. I'm not the kind to take on long term commitment (other than marriage...lol) particularly because I don't like to fail (story for another day). Anything, that requires consistent work and which I cannot guarantee continued interest does not appeal to me. But I took on gardening, with no real plan (except that I was spurred on not to fail else husband of mine would not let me live it down) and a year on, I'm loving it and still look forward to it.
xoxo
A glimpse will you?
Comments
Post a Comment