Rooted In Wisdom: Cultivating Ideas and Harvesting Lessons — Part 1 of 1,000
Personal insights and contemplations of The Fairly Quiet Gardener. Cultivating ideas and harvesting lessons from the books I love, gardeners that inspire me, my gardening journey, nature, and life in general.
As beautiful and meaningful as the plants and design of a garden may be, how profoundly more important, beautiful and meaningful are the lives (families, friends, pets) that pass through the gardens that we create and enjoy.
It is the accumulation of moments experienced privately in our gardens or shared exuberantly with others that build up in layers of memory and meaning. As we create this new garden of ours, which has been named Shortmeadow in playful homage to Monty Don’s Longmeadow garden, we are building layers of memory and meaning. It was the same in our prior garden.
Life for anyone, anywhere can be beneficially and meaningfully enriched by the experience of gardening. Regardless of the size or location of the garden or what is grown in it. (Anyone taking the time to read this obscure gardening blog is probably thinking “Duh!!” right about now.) Gardens enhance the lives of those who garden as well as those who may not garden themselves but get to experience the gardens. And gardens without the lives that become interwoven with them through countless seasons of sweat and toil are void of meaning (or, even more simply, wouldn’t exist).
