There are perils and rewards for nudging yourself out of your own mundane routine.
Four years of gardening in the wilderness and the garden to be is still in a conceptual phase as tiny trees and shrubberies settle in and begin to grow while competing with the wild things. I visit mature gardens and lament the slow pace of my own efforts. If only I could devout all my time to gardening on the mountaintop.
Such wide paths. I must have wide walkable paths.
Easier said than done on my steep and undulating terrain. I have the space for nice wide paths. I just don't have the flat.
A wealth of ideas and the chance to meet happy fellow gardeners rewards my efforts.
I lived on a lush tropical island for a long time filled with botanical splendors. Gardens grew at a pace unimaginable here. It was an island far away from my horticultural peers as well. It is a good thing I can't and don't spend all my time on the mountain top gardening in solitude.
In search of gardens I am finding a new happiness I haven't known so much before in all the fellow gardeners I meet along the garden path.
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I love visiting public gardens, and they are so abundant here in the Bay Area. I'm always get overloaded with inspiration and ideas when I visit them. That's a nice garden you visited, those wide paths are nice. :)
I think you have made spectacular progress in those 4 years given the cabin building, your altitude and woodland setting. My garden is also a woodland and things just plain grow more slowly.
And who wants wide paths in a woodland anyway, eh?
But yes, the beauty of gardening is those fellow learners you meet along the way.....enjoy!
bev
Inspiration and fellowship one finds when stepping outside the box.
I don't suppose you've wandered as far as Sandy Mush Herb Nursery. It's been in business for a long time. Even if it's not possible to take a large group there I would love to see pictures!
Yes, there's as much enjoyment to be found in meeting other gardeners and seeing their gardens as in creating your own.
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