Beautiful back garden blooms in the morning light – Oh, I love having a garden so much! 🙂
Tag: gardening
First Roses
More Yellow Poppies
More yellow poppies from my garden for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Columbine
I have it on good authority these little beauties growing by my back door are columbine 🙂
Honesty
Honesty is of those old fashioned cottage garden plants I’ve always loved – and I’m so delighted to find it growing in our garden! The seed pods look pretty enough now, but later in the year they dry up all silvery and papery translucent, and still look very differently beautiful 🙂
Another Day in the Garden
Another day pottering about in the garden, cutting the grass, doing a bit of weeding, sitting in the sunshine… and taking a few flower pics for today’s Flower of the Day 🙂
Brightening my Day
We’ve just had Mental Health Awareness Week (18-24 May 2020) and I’m very aware that my mental health is not great just now.
My motivation for doing anything much, in tandem with my melancholy mood, has been pretty low lately. I’ve been pushing myself to do ‘fun’ things to try to force myself out of it, bringing temporary relief at times but overall I feel I’m failing miserably at keeping my head above water. So while the weather is nice today I’m simply spending time pottering about aimlessly in the garden, letting go of the stranglehold grip on my own feelings and just letting the colours and smells and sounds of nature work their magic on me.
We had a lot of rain over the last week so all the flowers are looking bright and plump and the foliage is a really rich green; everything looks sated and content. I notice the old roses I cut back so drastically before the winter are finally starting to bud, and I’m relieved to see the large fuchsia bush by the gate I also hard-pruned almost to the ground is filling out nicely. Not having killed off either the fuchsia or the roses the first year we live here is certainly a good reason to bring a soft smile to my face.
As well as the ‘frequent flyer’ wood pigeons, seagulls and crows never far from sight we also have several blackbirds visiting regularly, the drab brown understated females as well as the striking black males with their orange beaks. And for the past couple of days I’ve also seen a few delicately-tinted blue tits flitting about hither and thither, pale yellow breasts and soft blue backs catching the sunlight as they dart about. Learning anew to recognise some of the childhood birds I now see regularly again makes me smile a little, too.
So in a week where I’ve been struggling to smile much at all without frantically forcing it through sheer willpower and definace against the lingering lure of depression, today I’m finding surprising solace in my garden by simply letting myself be – allowing myself to feel down when I feel down, and in turn feeling powerfully rewarded by the magic of nature’s own remedy helping to brighten my day.
