Do you take the time?

To enjoy your garden? With the everyday hustle and bustle is you every spare moment spent working in your garden? I know mine has been but it's a great stress relief. I said this year I was going to get it all done early so I could sit back and get to enjoy it. (hah like that will happen it will never be done). BUT I have been taking the time to enjoy it. I spend my weekend mornings with a walk through the yard with my coffee and just sit on the porch awhile and just enjoy it. (of course things are running through my mind the whole time of things I need to do as I look around). I try to take a little time each evening to just stroll through it or sit and just look. But the ultimate pleasure I get from it was tonight. We had grilled out. The kids had left DH and I sat out listening to the oldies songs on the radio. Just enjoying the peace and quite. The frog and crickets chirping. DH said you know you really have created a nice place back here it would be easy to get lost and it smells great. I almost feel out of my chair. lol So I guess it's all worth it. How do you take the time to enjoy your garden?

I get up at 5:30 so I can drink coffee with only the frogs and hummers for company in the morning. In the evening I do hose therapy. Lol. Something soothing about running around with a hose on warm summer evenings.

I enjoy the early morning ritual of getting outside and taking off the spent blooms and just puttering. Not really hard work, but it affords me the opportunity to talk with my plants and forget about everything else. I don't know if talking with your plants does anything for them, but it sure does something for my peace of mind!

LimeyLisa Kay

I try to but it seems all that I do is work out there. Like the rest of you, I enjoy my morning coffee outside. I walk around, cup in hand and check everything, but I keep finding more things that need to get done, lol!

Before I get in the car in the morning to go off to work, I walk through all my gardens to notice what has bloomed, what may be ready to pick seeds from, and what has passed that I had promised divisions to friends and co-workers. I usually pick fresh flowers twice a week for my desk at work and it's always wonderful fun going out in the morning with my garden scissors to see what comes to work with me.

The first thing I do when I get home at night is kick off my sandals and tour again. It's amazing how much a garden can change from morning til evening. These two times, about 15 minutes on each end of the day, are purely for my enjoyment. I try not to notice the bugs and weeds at those times, and just look, smell and touch. It's heaven.

I haven't spent as much time enjoying my gardens this summer as I often do because of the weather. I love to go out after supper and walk around just as dusk is setting in - the colors in the last light are something impossible to capture or describe. This year, there has been just too much rain.

I have spent alot of time looking out the study window in the second story of the house at the rock beds on the east side of the house. Everytime it stops raining for a day, I go out and move things, weed a little, do some deadheading. I have a list of things that need to be done the next time it stops raining. Until then, I'll just sit up here with my elbows on the window sill and my chin in my hands getting an aerial view of the rain-wet garden.

you guys a really lucky. when i go to work in the moring its still dark out. when i come home in the afternoon its so hot that all i can do is check the plants and pick a few grape tomatoes. hot peppers looking good though.on my one day off a week i do go out early and enjoy the garden.

I don't take as much time as I should but I do enjoy the working part of it. It's a whole different ballgame for me though since I don't work outside the home. My hat is off to you that have beautiful gardens and work full-time away from home. I was not able to do that when I worked.

Oh yes, certainly. I take a lot of time [or rather time takes a lot of me!! LOL] in my garden. I enjoy every moment being there, even many times doing nothing. It is during those times many beautiful ideas and thoughts pass by. "Happiness" is felt in the garden. It is one of the few places that happens, ain't it? Only the "experiencer" knows about it. When the telephone rings and the call is for me, the first place my DW and DDs look for is in the garden!

I enjoy the benefits of having my summers off every year. This year I was able to do major changes to the landscaping around the pool. My mornings are spent drinking my coffee (as I see much of us do :D ) and leisurely walking through my plants while the sun comes up from the horizon.

When my work schedule is full, in the morning I only have time to take a quick stroll through the yarden to see if anything happened while I slept.

When I get home I take a little more time to really look around to see what's new. I have a chair back in the corner of the yard. I planted a couple small trees to make it a private corner. I sit there and watch the butterflies, the birds in the birdbath, squirrels chewing away at the pine nuts and if I'm lucky maybe a large green lizard will happen by. They don't mind me being there as long as I don't move too much.

:^)))
Molly

I get out of bed in the morning, make coffee and then head to the garden with it. I love to look around when the sun is just coming up and see all of the new blooms. Then I pull out the hose and start watering all of the container plants and the hot spots in my garden. Back in to get ready for work. As soon as I get home, I change clothes and head to the garden for a little down time. It is the most relaxing time of the day for me. Then, after feeding my DH and DDs, I usually go back outside with whichever book I'm reading at the time. Most of my garden work is done on the weekend, although I do deadhead and pull a couple of weeds in the evening which puts my close to the flowers where the scents are so lovely. Like Dinu, everyone knows where to find me if the phone is for me.