Diary of a Garden - 2025 edition

My concept of gardening has changed a lot.

I know now that it not just buying a pretty plant.

Its not even knowing your zone, the soil's acidity/clay/sand, 

                            how much water, how much sunlight.

It's being there, working with the soil, the animals, the bugs, the sun, the rain,

                                not even thinking about plants.

Its noticing what shows up. 

                                Tending to what you like. 

                                Removing what you don't.

It's listening and responding.

Ok its not ALL exactly like that, but I'm getting there a lot more often.

Livinglifefully.com has an appropriate quote 

                            from Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen:

People can learn to study their life force in the same way that a master gardener studies a rosebush.  No gardener ever made a rose.  When its needs are met a rosebush will make roses.  Gardeners collaborate (with the entire network that is the rose--mine) and provide conditions which favor this outcome.