Why do You Garden???

LOL! I think we've gotten off track here! Love the birds but I think there is a pet forum. Why do you garden?

Ha ha Trunnels! Don't think so at all! We are still posting why we garden!

I love to garden because if I am outdoors I can't see what needs dusting, cleaning, laundering, picking up, etc. Winter is VERY hard on me. LOL

Meezersfive, you are a person after my own heart! I would rather mow than vacuum any day.
Natasha

Well, some of you made me teary and some of you made me laugh aloud. I liked the one about being your true self in the garden and the one about daily discovery. What a great thread! I used to have cockatiels but I decided it's the wild birds I love the most so I have society finches now. And I have nesting boxes for the garden singing. I think one of the reasons I feel dutiful to houseplants, but passionate for my gardens is the extra sensory input of the songbirds. This year I had 3 house wren family and it was pure heaven out there most of the summer. Here is a clip (press "House Wren Clip" under the bird photo) soze you can imagine this sound all day for months on end!!

http://www.rivernen.ca/bird_17.htm

Here are my finches favorite place.

great ?. i've been a mud baby practically since i popped out of the womb. i love digging in the dirt. it wears ya out, but energizes you at the same time. and then the stuff you've planted starts to come from the dirt you've tilled, blooms or fruits, you smell and eat great things. watching my baby chicks grow has been great fun. at peace with the world is why i garden.
deidre

One of my most memorable image-experiences was hollyhocks at my grannies house, vegetables always on our porches from neighbors, daffodils all over the front yard...lots of very lemon yellow.....Aunt Irene's rows and rows of zinnia's....and above all ..2 classy little ol' ladies from our church sittin on the ground with straw hats ..little flower cotton dresses with aprons on...workin & working for hours and the beautiful MASSES of irises, peonies and lord knows what else that I was ignorant of....great role models.... In my heart I knew there was something different about these ladies...a special different My mom was a "hothouse flower " did not love the out doors at all .....so it was good for my little soul to see there were other "things " that could bring people joy.. Images are so powerful to children folks... i hope someone is touche d in the heart like I was in this little country town when they drive by and see the beauty spilling over...so much to do so little time..... there are so many people that walk by (we are a main st) two little girls 14 ish and they are trying so hard to just be ..by george they have stopped when I am out and I know they are filing this beauty away .. they will folks ...they will dee oh yes...my Grandmother specialized in "dinner-plate dahlia's" my mom said she used to drive over to Dexter, mo. to get them...and that people drove from other little towns from around to see her yard.... I always want dahlia's...

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What a beautiful story, Dee. I love dahlias, too. Look at these -- they are about a foot over my head!

AHHHHH!! I wanna go home!!!!!! My mind is reeling with everything I want to do this weekend! Wait? This isn't the overwhelmed thread at all!!

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OOOOOO Ahhhhhhh..Can I get some of those seeds trunnels? :-D
I knowwww...not the Seed Trading Forum either! LOL LOL

Hi Kim! You are so funny! Wish I had saved some seed but didn't even think about it. Next year when they come up I will make sure to do that.

Awwwww :-D

What beautiful comments all of you have shared. Very humbling.

I got into gardening due to my intrest in birds.

Come on come on... more details than that Garden4Birds. With that type of a user name there has to be a history.

Well Equilibium;
Since you pleaded and begged for it..i got my name not because of my interest in birds alone but because of a VERY VERY close and dear friend helped me pick a new name the presents who I am andwhat I enjoy!
So with that I give her a Big THANKS!
Lisa
aka Garden4Birds

Trunnels, hello! and thank you .....you've got the touch girl...I need to talk to you.I let some of mine fall and it was too late to stake...oh..you know what happens when you try to pick them up....yours are so fabulous.....dee

Mornin' Dee! I used the green plastic stakes that are about five feet tall. It also helps that those are right in front of a wrought iron fence that I could stake them to. Plus, I think I'm just lucky because the clematis grew around them and helped to hold them up!

I have to copy yours cause I have never seen them like this even in a magazine. You cannot see the stakes at all..thanks