
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?
We have Louisiana irises, black eyed Susans and another one whose nick name is ham and eggs. It’s actually lantana and blooms like crazy!
Despite several days of colder weather (snow, ugh!) the grass is really green and growing - or a least other people's grass, mine is looking thin and weedy. I guess that I'll be mowing before too long.
After waffling I finally started a few seeds and they are beginning to pop up, so far I have tomatoes, morning glory, pie pumpkins, lupine and peppers. Now I just have to keep them alive until they can go out.
Did not remember:
Karl Foerster grass
'Karl Foerster' is the most popular of the hybrid feather reed grasses sold in commerce today. It is noted for its narrow-vertical growth of bright green leaves to 3' tall and 2' wide and feathery plumes of summer-blooming pink to purple tinged flowers on narrow upright stalks rising well above the foliage to 5' tall.
Common Name: feather reed grass
I don't remember your post about a David Austin rose, but do remember your blue Irises before you moved! It was wonderful to contemplate that many irises blooming, in blue.
I wish there were more blue blooming plants, my favorite color.
I love the blue color of plumbago. I wish there were more blue flowers. They are so pretty.
Those are truly beautiful roses GA!
As always, thanks for sharing, making our days better with distractions from being the caregiver.
Things can get pretty scary when the caregiver gets sick, if even temporarily and we get distracted a bit to do some self care. Every time I need to see the doctor, my dH does something tricky, proving that he will never be able to be there for me due to his condition. Always the caregiver, no vacays!
So, I am still okay!
I received my David Austin rose catalogue this morning! I'll spend the rest of the day soaring in Rose Heaven, planning all sorts of new gardens, pricing trellises and tuteurs, or designing some from sturdy saplings I'll cut down.
What else could be so as inspirational as pages and pages of David Austin's stunning roses?
Today is a good day to dream, paraphrasing Klingon Worf: "today is a good day to dream of roses and gardens."
Yes! Our spring is quite different from yours! Louisiana is a swamp! 😆 LOL
We are already feeling the muggy weather here.
My daughter that moved to Colorado says that she doesn’t miss the humidity here. She does say that she is using more lotion because her skin feels a lot drier.
I used to plant bulbs with my grandpa. Grandma loved her flower garden. He planted lilies. They were so pretty.
I was just getting ready to tell you all that the bulbs I mentioned earlier won't be held back so I went ahead and put them out in my planters, the crocus opened up today.
The azaleas 🌺 are blooming like crazy all around the city.
They are so beautiful!
I've ordered about a dozen catalogues, including from some from which I've bought before and others that I haven't used. Getting the mail is more interesting now.
And I recycle the catalogues by clipping photos of favorite and lovely plants to glue onto paper and slip inside the plastic covers of 3 ring binder notebooks . There's nothing like picking up tax binders and seeing masses of flowers before even considering the droll and often upsetting tax issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFZFjoX2cGg&feature=emb_logo
Cape honeysuckle looks like what we call trumpet vine which is very invasive if you can get it started.
We used to have a flower shop at the mall where there was indoor parking and that was the only place I felt sort of safe buying flowers in the winter.