The Reality Is So Much Better Than The Dream Could Ever Be…………
A few weeks ago I was looking at my very untidy, unkempt, weed ridden garden and I could see the potential, my neighbour came along and said “thinking of cutting the grass are you”. I turned and replied “actually no, I’m thinking new fence, patio area, trellis….” She looked at me and said “dream on girl”.
About 3 weeks later I sat on my patio on a lovely sunny morning looking around my garden. I had put up 3meters of bamboo screen, I built two additional flower beds. I made a composting box and a garden coffee table. I put up trellis, I planted flowers shrubs and herbs, put down around 6 bags of chippings and I had laid my patio.
Of course my neighbours had watched as I slowly transformed my garden, wanting to know where I had got something from, offering words of encouragement as I worked away, some were amazed that I had taken on such a big job but full of admiration that I was slowly transforming it. My daughter and I had trips to the garden centre to pick up supplies and plants and inevitably came back with something we hadn’t intended getting but seemed to be just the right thing once we got it back to the garden. Sometimes I would pick up a plant thinking it would look nice in a certain spot and my daughter had a different perspective on it and we would discuss it, sometimes I would go with her way of thinking other times she would change her mind and go with mine.
As the garden slowly transformed my original intentions would sometimes change and something better would emerge.
The basis of the original visions I had of the finished garden is there but with additions and subtractions it is actually better than I dreamed, and it will only improve, because I did my bit, now I have to wait for the flowers and shrubs to grow and come into full bloom and as that happens it will add to the beauty that is already there.
Your life is your garden, do the groundwork, be open to other perspectives, watch out for unexpected things appearing, sit back every now and then and look at the work already done, if it doesn’t feel quite right tweak it a little or completely take it out, plant the seeds and then sit back and let time and nature do the rest.
The most frustrating thing is, since I finished the garden I’ve only been able to sit out in it for 2 days because it’s been raining, but I realised today I need the rain to help nourish the garden and help the plants and flowers to grow, so even though rain isn’t very nice for me it’s just what the garden needs so I can enjoy it even more when I am able to sit out.
Blessings.