Chapter 14: Gardening
First of all, I inherited a major Green Thumb from my Grandmother Geen, so I could write a book about gardening.  Growing plants is soothing to the soul.  There are flowers, herbs, groundcovers, mosses, annuals, perrenials, vegetables, medicinal plants, flowers, and more flowers.  I've grown them all on my porch in the last seven years.  I've always been a gardener.
Why should you garden?  Because getting your fingers in the composted soil feels so good and heals the soul.  Because there is something holy in planting a plant and watching it grow, watering it and delighting in it as it blooms.  I love to water my plants.  I feel like my plants have emotions, i can feel what they're feeling when i go outside.  Especially after a good Rainstorm.
Grow and herb garden so you can have herbs in your cooking.  Grow a flower garden so you can be happy and for the beauty.  Garden all year round.  Grow a summer garden, a winter garden, a spring garden (bulbs!), and an autumn garden.  Gardening continues year-round.  It's kind of hard to explain
my love for plants, but here are some ideas for gardening that i have done and tried:
-climbing vines on porch railings
-container herb gardens for cooking, basil, thyme, rosemary, etc,
-tomato plants, strawberry plants, pumkpin vines.
-roses of every size and variety
-delphiniums
-bulbs (iris, tulips, daffodils, amaryllis, crocus, gladiolas, etc)
-succulent gardens
-turning a planter into a pond garden and adding fish
-fountains
-garden statues
-mammoth sunflowers by the dozen (grow from seed)
-perrenials
-mosses and groundcovers
-ferns
-indoor plants
-orchids

So go to the plant nursery and look around, and buy yourself a little garden!  Or you can grow plants from seed, seed packets are for sale at most general stores.  they must be watered and planted an inch deep, though, and although cheap, they don't come up as easily as one would hope.  But they're fun.  Try Sunflowers.  You can scatter sunflower bird seeds in a yard or meadow and see if they come up.  Instant Garden!  Enjoy.,,,=)