Gardening
Drop a 🌷if sometimes you need the plants, the sunbeams, and a good cry in a field to remember you’re made of starstuff and compost.
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1. Miss Rumphius
2. The Secret World of Arrietty
3. Jessie Willcox Smith
4. Spirited Away
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instagram.comTHE BASIL TRICK 🌿
1. Never water the soil, only water the saucer
2. Always keep the saucer full
3. Never pluck, always trim the stem just above a leaf
Some other helpful tips:
4. Use an XL saucer or bowl. It will drink what it needs!
5. Repotting... See more
instagram.comGardens are a mechanism by which we make life bearable. They protect us from the frenzy and tumult unleashed by history. They counter annihilating and anarchic forces. Gardens have been with us – or we have been with gardens – forever.
Robert Pogue Harrison • Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Gardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care, action and intimacy with place. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and... See more
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
What holds true for the soil—that you must give it more than you take away—also holds true for nations, institutions, marriage, friendship, education, in short for human culture as a whole, which comes into being and maintains itself in time only as long as its cultivators overgive of themselves.
Robert Pogue Harrison • Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
Everything You Need To Know About Terrariums
lisadawson.substack.com
Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season