I have concluded that my mental health is greatly improved by a day out in the garden. Yesterday was my first real concentrated effort in garden therapy and in the few short hours I invested I was reminded of the immense gratification and stress relief I get out of planting and nurturing plants and flowers. [...]
Tag: gardening
My garden companions have returned…
I have been uplifted by three straight days of robin sightings. The robins are back in the area my friends. I have seen a pair of them frequenting my deck. I wonder if they are the babies from last year that the mother robin so meticulously watched over. I wonder if they have come back [...]
Diggin’ – my therapy.
Sometime in October I noticed that I had lost some strength and range of motion in my right arm. My first thought was that perhaps I had experienced a stroke and didn't realize it. So of course I smiled, raised my arms over my head, and said, "How now brown cow?" I concluded from my [...]
If you give a plant lover an employee discount…
Believe it or not, I had never visited Baker Nursery in Fargo until today. I have passed it a hundred times, but I never stopped in. Today I stopped in for what I thought was going to be five minutes to look at a tree that Mike wanted me to look at. I emerged two [...]
High Noon
When one is out and about traveling for close to a month during June in North Dakota, one knows that one will return home in July to a few things. The first is warm weather; the second is much larger shrubs and flowers; and the third is a varied collection of very happy and healthy weeds. [...]
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