Gardening is so satisfying

So, true. Gardening is so satisfying.

I cannot stop, if I was not very tired and hot I would have still been out there. I am probably addicted,

I was crawling in the flower bed earlier.

I've just finished helping water all the newly p otted up plants in our conservatory and garden. I usually leave the gardening to my DH as he knows better than me about plants. We've had a walk round, and noticed that the plum trees he bought have started to wake up, the cucamelons corms have begun to sprout, and the little rescued fi g tree has 15 figs. Gardening is indeed satisfying and very therapeutic.

Used not to, but now I love gardening. We have a large plot which keeps DH and I busy. Next project is a stone wall to contain a steep bank . I have never attempted anything similar .

My gooseberry bush is loaded this year. It is about four years old now and in the past i have been lucky to get a handful of berries.It is currently under a fleese to protect fruit from chilly nights and the blackbirds as i saw them trying to pull the fruit off!!! Love my garden and my DH says i 'mother' my plants, watering, feeding and covering each night with a 'blanket' to protect them. I am always pottering in the garden or greenhouse, well you have too don't you.

I bought some Iris on the "left over table" in the garden centre.
All of a sudden the number of them have multiplied. And are now flowering .

So what I did my brain do? It started getting me thinking I could put some over there. And over there. Different colours would be nice.
I am helpless.

I have ordered this metal sign for my garden fence. It says it all for me!

I often go out in the garden 'just for half an hour' and then find several hours have gone by.Today it was a godsend as our DD ,who is overdue with her baby,had gone in thinking labour was starting.Weeding and replenishing gravel kept me busy and stopped me fretting.Turned out it was a false alarm and she is back home,still waiting.I certainly got lots done !

I do think that everything is being very productive so far this year. Roses are laden, clematis laden with foliage and some flowering like mad. soft fruit looking really good. All the perennial looking very cheerful. Good isn’t it?

I think the relatively good winter must have something to do with it.

It's said that laughter is the best medicine but gardening comes in at a very close second. You can lose yourself and nothing else seems to matter. I couldn't live without my garden.

This thing about celandines. I remember them from when I was at school but its only recently I have seen them again in great numbers.

That seems very odd. Any body else noted that?

My Camelia has kept its flowers for the longest time ever this year. Usually they open, the edges go brown and off the petals fall.

I used to welcome the celandines as one of the first flowers when out walking but can't say I've noticed more of them resurgam123. However now they cover my garden borders there are so many they choke the plants and are not welcome. I wonder how they first got there.
Grammaretto I love the company of the birds too, we have lots of sparrows, I've not seen so many for years.

Absolutely love my garden...when I'm troubled it helps..when I'm out there digging/planting I just lose myself..love growing cuttings,seeds, splitting plants etc..some of which I sell on at the hospice shop where I volunteer...have a "grandkids corner" peas, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries..they just all pick&eat.. nothing makes it into the house..I garden organically...no chemicals at all...I pay a price as the end of the garden meets farmland and I get ground elder galore.. constant battle...but nevertheless..my garden is my haven ?

..shysal..love the sign!!!

I enjoy tying in my plants that need supports. Heaven only knows why I enjoy that. I am stringing up my roses to the trellis. They are really growing well now.

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Lovely time of year in the garden - so much colour! Have a great mass of honeysuckle just flowering - it smells wonderful, especially early evening.

Lisagran your flowers are beautiful. I love Iris but haven't tried growing them. I stick to hardy Roses, Hollyhocks,Petunias and Gladiolas. This photo is from last year.

Sorry, the photo option has defeated me after 20 minutes of trying?

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I love my garden, it’s not a coiffured garden, things come up where they want so it looks fairly wild but I do look after it and I love my chair to sit and think, at one with the world in my little paradise here’s a few pics from last week the fritillary was taken earlier

Your garden looks lovely, Blubelle - I like that sort of random, sprawling look. I have lots of pots, but in the borders everything is intermingled! Pageturner I can’t get pics to load now either

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oh how I miss gardening! due to ill health I cant do it anymore, I had my tiny front garden grassed over and sit out there when the weather lets me. 3 years ago new neighbours moved in the upstairs flat and she asked if she could take over the garden. I said yes as it would be lovely to see some flowers. About a year later she left her partner and took some of the plants in the front garden. He did make an effort with the garden but now the novelties worn off and he has let it go. Thankfully we have comunual gardens so gardeners call every week, so I have to ask them to tidy the garden up every so often.

I just wish it would stop raining. The greenhouse is bursting with stuff that needs planting in the veg garden.

I now have a gardener and the garden looks good, but no
pleasure really because I didn’t do the planting and weeding.