The Garden Questions: Week 14

Greetings #Hivegarden. I had a bit of time today to answer the week 14 question.

What’s your garden philosophy? Why should we grow our own food, tend to a flower garden, or maintain a green space? Why is it important - for ourselves, communities, the earth itself? How do we gain - spiritually, economically, environmentally? Or is it just something to occupy idle hands?

For me having a garden is a means of conserving the environment in general, because with it we are generating oxygen with each plant in our gardens, purifying the air we breathe. By keeping each plant inside our homes we are cleaning the inside of the rooms and bathrooms.

Since I have had my home many years ago I have had plants indoors. Until I decided in the time of the pandemic to plant passion fruit in the yard. Also in my son's backyard I planted lechosas, semerucos and maracuyas, which I have harvested, and enjoyed delicious juices with my family, even giving them as gifts to friends. So my philosophy has really worked for beauty with flowering plants and food with fruit trees.

Today, in my new home, I have been organizing my own garden, in my enclosure, I feel very happy rethinking, and designing as I would like the distribution of the plants. I am very happy, I have already planted in the ground lemon, onoto, lechosa, cayenne, lilies, bougainvillea or trinitarias, and petunias, beautiful eleven and two beautiful ixora bushes. Right now there are tomatoes and patillas blooming.

So I say that really for me my garden is of great importance, without it life would not be beautiful, it is a place to breathe clean air, to listen to the chirping of the birds, the hum of the hummingbirds that daily prowl the ixora flowers, to see the dance of the bees.

Really for me practicing gardening is of much satisfaction and happiness, it is of integration since all the members of my family participate with me in the planting and design of the garden. Every time they help me to dig a hole, my daughter has given me some pots and fertilizers, my son and husband open holes, they name the bushes and I plant and water. Everything in my garden is in harmony and the plants reward me with their flowers and fruits.

Friends gardeners, I hope you liked this publication. Your opinions are welcome…