Horseofadifferentcolor
Jedi Council Member
When I first joined this forum I was really very excited to participate in plant talk with like minded folks. I have yet to do so until now. I was inspired by this thread here http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,34483.msg543621.html#msg543621 Thankyou GreenMan and HowToBe
With all the serious things happening on our planet I have felt a since of guilt for years about how much time I spend tending my flower beds. I even got bee hives for an excuse for more flowers. I no longer make up excuses for my compulsive gardening habits. Another member told me one day that it is a form of positive dissociation and I took that and ran with it. I have never been very good at writing or the tech part of this world and that has brought up all kinds of I programs not being good enough to share or be of any help to this group.
I used to be a pretty big activist concerning environmental issues. I almost was arrested at the capital when Bush Jr. was pulling his dirty deeds while still governor for Texas. All the knocking on doors, signing petitions, and protesting only got me pushed farther away from my friends and family. No one cared. I got told one day that people like me is why their brother lost his job. I am still active in a sense by voting with my wallet and trying to plant my way out of this hell we live in. I joined volunteer programs that rehabilitate land taken over by invasive species and human destruction.
2015 has started off pretty bad and I am sure I am not the only one feeling how terrible it all seems. On the thread linked above GreenMan had this to say "Yes, gardening as you and I know it, is a gift to the world around us and an act of faith in the future. These days I don' have a lot of faith that there is a future here on the BBM but then spring comes again and I feel so blessed to have another one that I'm hooked all over again."
I can relate to this. Last winter I lost some of my sensitive collectors plants to an unexpected hard freeze and had decided o.k. enough with all of this. What is the point to go on. The world is ending anyways. Things are so bad in the world and no one cares or can afford plants anymore anyways. Sure glad I snapped out of that.
Now every time I feel the hell we are living in closing in around me I go to the garden for comfort. I plant flowering trees and shrubs for past loved ones and have begun doing the same for world events. It is not hardly a drop in the bucket in the large picture of things, but it is something. As the pollinators are disappearing from the world I think it is more important than ever to do my part for them. There is so much beauty from watching the close relationship of everything that is around us. It is so shocking to me that people tend to think that nature is something separate from them.
O.k. before this turns into a full blown rant about the evils of the world I will leave it at this. Picture below is of a poppy that I planted from seed and reseeds every year now. The bees love them. They roll around in them in a way that looks like puppies playing in the grass. Happy gardening for 2015 everyone
With all the serious things happening on our planet I have felt a since of guilt for years about how much time I spend tending my flower beds. I even got bee hives for an excuse for more flowers. I no longer make up excuses for my compulsive gardening habits. Another member told me one day that it is a form of positive dissociation and I took that and ran with it. I have never been very good at writing or the tech part of this world and that has brought up all kinds of I programs not being good enough to share or be of any help to this group.
I used to be a pretty big activist concerning environmental issues. I almost was arrested at the capital when Bush Jr. was pulling his dirty deeds while still governor for Texas. All the knocking on doors, signing petitions, and protesting only got me pushed farther away from my friends and family. No one cared. I got told one day that people like me is why their brother lost his job. I am still active in a sense by voting with my wallet and trying to plant my way out of this hell we live in. I joined volunteer programs that rehabilitate land taken over by invasive species and human destruction.
2015 has started off pretty bad and I am sure I am not the only one feeling how terrible it all seems. On the thread linked above GreenMan had this to say "Yes, gardening as you and I know it, is a gift to the world around us and an act of faith in the future. These days I don' have a lot of faith that there is a future here on the BBM but then spring comes again and I feel so blessed to have another one that I'm hooked all over again."
I can relate to this. Last winter I lost some of my sensitive collectors plants to an unexpected hard freeze and had decided o.k. enough with all of this. What is the point to go on. The world is ending anyways. Things are so bad in the world and no one cares or can afford plants anymore anyways. Sure glad I snapped out of that.
Now every time I feel the hell we are living in closing in around me I go to the garden for comfort. I plant flowering trees and shrubs for past loved ones and have begun doing the same for world events. It is not hardly a drop in the bucket in the large picture of things, but it is something. As the pollinators are disappearing from the world I think it is more important than ever to do my part for them. There is so much beauty from watching the close relationship of everything that is around us. It is so shocking to me that people tend to think that nature is something separate from them.
O.k. before this turns into a full blown rant about the evils of the world I will leave it at this. Picture below is of a poppy that I planted from seed and reseeds every year now. The bees love them. They roll around in them in a way that looks like puppies playing in the grass. Happy gardening for 2015 everyone