Monday's gardening lesson!

Gardening mistakes are a given for anyone that has planted even one package of seed, or taken one trip to the nursery and come home with plants that have seduced them with visions of a beautiful harvest. Sun or shade, how much water, rich soil or poor, fertilize or prune, plant in rows or scatter.....lots of opportunity to choose. I always giggle when I hear the term, "Master Gardener". It simply means they have had more experience and have made more mistakes than the rest of us. Perhaps those two words go together....experience and mistakes.

So, we have another gift from the garden....knowing that we will make mistakes...there will be circumstances and events that we cannot control....choices that we made that do not yield an abundant harvest....weeds that were left to suffocate plants that we would rather cultivate....and yes....colors, shapes and design that we need to transplant to a spot where they have the chance to grow into what they were meant to be. Experience is the only way to have good judgment and mistakes give us experience.

The garden invokes experience....how to nourish, encourage and cultivate healthy, blooming seasons of our life....one day at a time....in sunshine or rain...in warmth or in the dead of winter....we learn to grow, thrive and produce an abundant harvest. I have several garden fairies, angels, cement snails, frogs and turtles that remind me I am not out there gardening alone. The tinkling of a wind chime reminds me...angels are attending.