It’s Thursday again and I should like to continue offering different perspectives on the question: What is a Garden?
Here is yet another quotation from my eBook Guess What’s in my Garden!
“A garden is a multi-discipline scientific laboratory for exploration and discovery. A garden is a chemistry laboratory in which we investigate soil pH, NPK, trace elements, carbon dioxide, oxygen, fertilizer, and compost creation. A garden is a hydrology laboratory in which we experiment with drainage, berms, swales, water retention, percolation rates, fountains, ponds, and streams. A garden is a biology laboratory where we examine animals, birds, insects, microbes, and creepy-crawlies. A garden is a botany laboratory in which we study propagation, roots, pollen, seeds, stems, buds and leaves. A garden is a physics laboratory concerned with osmosis, capillary action, and photosynthesis. A garden is an ecology laboratory that examines seasons, temperature, pollinators, and predators.”
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How many different but complementary ways do you look at your garden?
A Walk in the Garden 
I like this definition, makes us all think.
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Thanks, Christina. That was my intention all along. There are so many ways to “look” at a garden, and in truth all are involved simultaneously.
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Defining what a garden is seems tricky, as we all have different ideas, but yes, this comes pretty close. A space for experimenting and learning without fear of failure. 🙂
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Thank you, Cathy. I hoped to get folks thinking about it.
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A garden is a challenge for the mind,
Wherein artistic outlets one may find,
Plus exercising of the manual kind
Allowing one to totally unwind,
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My goodness. Now we have a gardening poet. Very nice and thoughtful. Thanks.
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Other than an interest in wildlife, the science of gardening is not where the thrill is for me…but this is certainly a thought-provoking perspective.
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When I wrote this section, I had not conciously thought about the science either. I realized later that it had been percolating for a long time.
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