The Serenity In Gardening

Gardening is my new found passion, it’s something I never thought I was good at, but I needed an outlet for when I was feeling stressed or overwhelmed. I always admired how my grandma or my mom had a good hand for gardening, and seeing how their plants would flourish. My immediate passions always were painting, writing, or baking... those are the three things I was good at above everyone else in my family, it was something that I could get lost in doing and do it all the time. Baking was a hobby as well as a thriving idea for a business for me, I was able to start a at-home business, it went well, but life came along and a lot of things changed. I experienced loss in my family, my work life became quite complex, I needed something that would make me go outside and enjoy the beauty of the world. I took on gardening, I started by buying a starter kit box of lavender and sunflower seeds to see if I was any good at it, long behold, I actually had a niche for it; who knew?! So, I started making trips to Home Depot, buying small variety of plants, and I started created other things that were opening up the possibilities for more. I discovered that I had a talent for caring and taking care of something that also required a lot of love and attention. Not like I’ve never had pets that I needed to take care of, or family, but this was something for which brought joy to my heart as well as joy to others. I’m not an expert by any means in this field, I am still learning as I go, but I would’ve never imagined myself doing this and being good at it. I started getting my friends into it, I had a coworker like seeing my succulent sitting on my desk, so I took her one, and it just picked up from there.

For 18 years of my life, I lived with my mom, she was a single parent to both my little brother and I, she was the one that showed me how to garden and create different things. My mom was very hands on and very crafty, so crafty in fact, she would be renovating our house in the middle of the night, she was always finding ways to make everything more beautiful. My mom practically lived at Home Depot, she would love passing by the gardening section, and getting a different plant every time. The older I got, the more innovative I wanted to be, so I asked my mom if I could build a pond in the backyard, my mom was confused but excited at the same time. So she took me to the store, I picked out the materials, and home we went. I started the project of building the pond, the idea was to create a water stream around my little brother’s playhouse, where it would lead to the pond with the koi fish. I had such a big imagination, I was ready to finish this project, when life took a turn for the worst. A traumatic moment happened in my family’s lives, I wasn’t able to finish it. We lost the house, and all the memories that came with it. It was very devastating, it was the home that my little brother grew up in, and the only place he knew at the time. But, just like every sad story, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and we were able to rebuild our lives.

My idea or my goal is to have my own house, finish what I started with the pending pond, and see where it goes from there. My idea is to have a full garden in the front and back of my house, with bushels of roses, maybe a few aloe vera plants, and stream of different colored flowers. It sounds like a lot of work, but I am confident that I will be able to get it done. As soon as this happens, I will write a second part to this story, and keep everyone on the edge of their seats. It was fun writing this, and I hope that everyone enjoys it!