Posted on March 23, 2014

Even though I live in a very small place right now, I can still have some fun in the garden. Most people living around me are not there at all. They are just too busy with other things. But I have always loved the outdoors and gardening, especially with flowers. I love rose gardens and so I have decided to put some roses on my front patio. I am finally there and can do this. I dream of having a huge rose garden with beautiful fountains someday, but that is not real right now.  The reality is I can have a few rose plants in pots and I can definitely take care of them on my patio. Rosa californica is one I am considering right now as it is a native rose to California.

I am also involved with a family food growing project too. My middle son got us going on that and it is so much fun! We planted a large variety of little seeds in the indoor tent and many of them are outside now and starting to really grow. Yes, some of the seeds did not make it, but that is reality. I do not focus on those few . I instead focus on the many that are growing and thriving. That is how nature is. Not everything grows and lives on. But we can experiment and try different approaches and that makes it fun too. So we sprout these fruits and vegetables in an indoor grow tent and then transplant and move them outside onto our back porch and that is what is happening right now. We will have a great variety of freshly grown produce food this summer. It is the first time we have ever done this together. It is amazing to see the results happen right before our eyes.

I am awaiting the arrival of  my salvia sonomensis (creeping sage) plants this coming week. They will be planted in the front landscaping area (all nine of them) and will look beautiful along with the alyssum and California poppies. I am happy that I am able to continue to be creative with gardening. This is important for me because it is about life going on. Too much of this landscaping is not about life. It is just about covering up the earth. And that is not good. The earth needs to be moved and raked and sowed. Not just covered up and allowing snails to live there.

I hope that more people will respond to this natural approach to nature and gardening. But I am at least following my feelings here and will not stop. Here in Northern California, we have had spring for a very long time. The calendar does not make any sense at all here. How can a calendar determine what is really going on in reality? It can’t. Our winter was a short cold spell in December. After that, our temperatures started to warm up.  That is the reality here for us. 

Calendars are not real. I am seeing that in the future, the calendar of today will be gone. We will just go on and do things as we feel, without thinking or looking at a calendar to guide us or control our activities.  That is how I live anyway. I do not care about holidays. I do not celebrate them. It is not a religious thing. It is just not important for me to celebrate holidays anymore. I am not restricted by a day or a calendar. I live from day to day and let my feelings guide me. And right now, I am feeling so good because life is happening right before me.  I am planning the next step for me:  which roses will fit on my front porch?Creativity in the garden is what you achieve when you are purging out your spiritual energies. You can do anything you want to in reality. It may be scaled down a bit, but that is OK. It is always more fun to be real.