Comments on: why do you garden? http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2 Gardening information and inspiration from Margaret Roach Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: margaret http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2/comment-page-3#comment-5489 margaret Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:10:05 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=640#comment-5489 Hello, Cigal, and thank you for joining in the conversation. The hummingbirds are something...defying the imagination, really, with their tiny size and high-energy antics. See you again soon. Hello, Cigal, and thank you for joining in the conversation. The hummingbirds are something…defying the imagination, really, with their tiny size and high-energy antics. See you again soon.

]]> By: chigal http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2/comment-page-3#comment-5488 chigal Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:42:36 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=640#comment-5488 I garden to improve my life. It's amazing what a cheap packet of seeds and a sunny window can do for your emotional well being. And I feel healthier, now that I eat various fresh herbs almost every day. This year, I'm trying to strike a balance between simple potted herbs and the explosion of vegetative overgrowth I've created in the past few summers. (A neighbor's tree came down and I got a little carried away.) I get hummingbirds up on my balcony, which was surprising the first year in this new place. I feel responsible for giving them somewhere to stop for a meal, each year. I garden to improve my life. It’s amazing what a cheap packet of seeds and a sunny window can do for your emotional well being. And I feel healthier, now that I eat various fresh herbs almost every day.

This year, I’m trying to strike a balance between simple potted herbs and the explosion of vegetative overgrowth I’ve created in the past few summers. (A neighbor’s tree came down and I got a little carried away.)

I get hummingbirds up on my balcony, which was surprising the first year in this new place. I feel responsible for giving them somewhere to stop for a meal, each year.

]]> By: margaret http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2/comment-page-3#comment-5265 margaret Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:16:31 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=640#comment-5265 Welcome, Jenny, from Baltimore....is it snowing there today? You are right, our own bit of the outdoors makes all the difference, bringing peace. Hope to see you soon here again. Welcome, Jenny, from Baltimore….is it snowing there today? You are right, our own bit of the outdoors makes all the difference, bringing peace. Hope to see you soon here again.

]]> By: Jenny http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2/comment-page-3#comment-5264 Jenny Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:06:52 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=640#comment-5264 because I feel most at peace with myself when I am out in my 17x20 foot Baltimore city backyard with my native friends rising above my knees (and some over my head) while I bend down to remove the pesky thistle shoots that threaten to take over like they have in the neglected lot next door. Later, when I'm cleaned up and resting on my back deck, I feel great delight watching the bees, butterflies, and gold finches stopping by my city oasis for visits. because I feel most at peace with myself when I am out in my 17×20 foot Baltimore city backyard with my native friends rising above my knees (and some over my head) while I bend down to remove the pesky thistle shoots that threaten to take over like they have in the neglected lot next door. Later, when I’m cleaned up and resting on my back deck, I feel great delight watching the bees, butterflies, and gold finches stopping by my city oasis for visits.

]]> By: margaret http://awaytogarden.com/why-do-you-garden-2/comment-page-3#comment-4764 margaret Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:10:39 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=640#comment-4764 Welcome, Sambodhi Prem. Indeed there is not cycle as complete feeling as growing, picking, cooking, eating. Nurturing the plants that then nurture us. Thank you, and also thank you for sharing the music samples at your site; you know from my comments elsewhere that I love the cello, and these are a very unusual blend of cello and other sounds. Lovely. Come again soon. Welcome, Sambodhi Prem. Indeed there is not cycle as complete feeling as growing, picking, cooking, eating. Nurturing the plants that then nurture us. Thank you, and also thank you for sharing the music samples at your site; you know from my comments elsewhere that I love the cello, and these are a very unusual blend of cello and other sounds. Lovely. Come again soon.

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