This Thursday I share another in my series of perspectives on the question: What is a Garden? These are excerpts from the article in my eBook Guess What’s in My Garden!
A garden is an expression of environmental stewardship where we make personal decisions about watering, about fertilizers, about pesticides, about weed control, about composting, about recycling.
A garden is a battleground where we are in constant combat with thorns, weeds, sunscald, frostbite, and critters.
A garden is a funhouse!
A garden is a joy!
A garden is a sure blessing!
This is the final excerpt from the article. If you missed the earlier perspectives, here are links to them.
How do you answer that question: What is a Garden?
A Walk in the Garden 
Ah…critters! We had three deer yesterday.
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I hope they were just passing through.
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so many critters!
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And so few defences. (or no fences at all)
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and how could we live happily without our gardens; I know I for one couldn’t. So garden is therapy too!
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A great thought that I had overlooked. Thank you, Christina. You are sooooo right.
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I truly like your blog and have nominated you for the Blogger Recognition Award 🙂 My nomination post is here https://a-closet-of-errors.com/2017/02/17/gratitude/ Thank you for the inspiration!
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I am touched and humbled by your nomination for the Blogger Recognition Award. I regret that I an not able to handle the response right now. I hope you will continue to check out my blog, as I am writing it for the fun of sharing what’s going on in my world and watching what’s happening in my garden.Thank you so much.
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Of course, I will keep coming back!
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I’m really appreciating the many different aspects of life that come together in cultivating a garden – the various decisions about pesticides, species, weather etc. All those decisions to find our way through dilemmas of balancing order and surprise, protecting and nurturing, care for your own space while also caring for the wider impact … seems like a rich place for discovery and deepening care for all life
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I’m glad my quotes inspired you to think about a garden and the many different ways to look at it.
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