“ My desires are like seeds left in the ground.  They wait for the right season and then spontaneously manifest into beautiful flowers and mighty trees, into enchanted gardens and magic forests”   The Vedas.

“Enchanted gardens and magic forests!”

What a magical and inspirational quote!  If you nurture the scene in your mind you can create that same ambiance on the ground.

I have always been a secret admirer of magical gardens and enchanted forests.  And I have always had a secret desire to have one of my own because I am a self-confessed gardening addict.

I find that I am renewed, sustained and revitalized by a garden. And it doesn’t even have to be my own garden.  Any beautiful garden has the same effect on me.

Because of this passion I can truthfully say that my garden was seeded and took root from my obsessive interest.

And today I walk among the trees and flowers and I have what I truly think of as a magic garden and an enchanted forest of my own.

Organic vegetables

My parents had a wonderful farm and I soon acquired a love of home-grown produce.

Now, many years later, although we don’t have a farm, our garden has quite a nice assortment of interesting flowers and vegetables.  All organic of course because I hate poisons.

I prefer to use natural sprays when necessary.  Sprays that don’t harm plants or animals.

So our garden  thrives on natural compost, pine leaves from the “forest section” for mulching the roses and more that I will discuss in future posts.