Mysterious Garden

 

Hi friends (and trolls), I thought I would begin a new blog series about the wonders and trials of creating and keeping a garden...not a vegetable garden or simple flower bed, although those can be mysterious too, but a pleasure garden to bring joy, imagination, and creativity to life!

People without imagination see the garden on the top as a 'nuisance', a mess, needing to be cut down and destroyed. However, people with vision and imagination let their mind walk to the middle picture: a clearing, a path. Where does it go? What lays beyond? After three hours of work the path is opened into a place that can be filled; but filled with what? Stone or cast tables and chairs could grace a corner. Perhaps a garden bed filled with flowers or leafy plants could cascade in the middle or edges. I could see a bird bath and feeders setting among the grasses...so many things to see, if you just take a moment and breathe, and look at the possibility rather than the problem: magical, mysterious, and fanciful things can happen.

Magic is all around us. Remember, just because you cannot see the beauty in something does not mean it is not there. Perhaps, if the uncreative and unimaginative among us would be content with their empty lawns of grass and tiny, neat, little gardens around the border of their houses and allow the out of the box thinkers have their wild and rangy gardens life could be a bit sweeter. This episode in the series is just a taste...as it goes on we'll dive into the joys that gardens bring. One person's garden is not like another's. I hope you'll keep following the journey as I work on my friend's garden and show those who would and have made it cut down to the ground see how taking time to uncover the secrets and mysteries in the earth is how you encourage a garden to stay lovely. Taking away all the structure makes it an unhappy place to be. We will be bringing the structures to life. I hope you enjoy!!!