A love of gardening has long been in our family, but until recently hasn’t been something that has really been on my radar.
The toil and patience needed for gardening and the persistence to tweak, move or adapt the garden to suit the environment (and understand what the environmental conditions actually are in the first place) has given me a whole new appreciation for the ‘marathon’ that creating a lovely garden backdrop requires.
Embedded in gardening is a belief that what is sown will grow and blossom into something worthy of admiring in time. Investing time, developing a deeper understanding of our environment to craft a (hopefully) fruitful plan and seeing the comparisons with nature and what we do for a living has been the greatest insight for me….