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Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant thing you can do, especially in the city
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Gardening is, of course, an intrinsically hopeful act and it is a reparative act but, particularly in the world today, it can also be a defiant act.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
My husband is always taking care of our plants. I am not very good at it.
He does it with a kind of dedication, he says it’s good for him, but I also see him getting so frustrated, when the succulents are not growing or surviving like he wants them too. Especially when gardeners tell him they are the easiest plants and the easiest to take care of.
... See moreAlthough gardening is a creative act, it is not always held in high regard. Sometimes it is trivialised as a ‘nice’ hobby or an unnecessary luxury; equally it may be relegated to a form of lowly manual labour. The source of this polarisation can be traced back to the Bible. The garden of Eden is as beautiful as it is abundant and until Adam and Eve
... See moreSue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
