Gardening as Chore - or Meditation?

Recently, I’ve been experiencing my garden as a bit of a chore. I’ve been very busy running around and trying to meet deadlines and also trying to fit in seeing friends and going out to restaurants and art galleries - all the usual London and big-city activities that tend to fill up all our diaries. So when it comes to having to mow the lawn once a week or tend to the rampaging weeds and pruning the shrubbery that’s gone mad, I’ve been harrassed and resentful of the time it’s taking out of my diary.

But then after a few minutes of mucking around in the greenery and soil, I start to relax and my racing mind slows down. And then I realise that I actually enjoy gardening!

Here is a video about Gardening as Meditation that I came across just as I was thinking about stepping back from the computer and putting on my gardening togs for a session of digging and pruning. Talk about synchronicity! It’s part of a series of videos on blip.tv, giving gardening tips. I’m definitely going to be subscribing to this video blog - which will hopefully keep me inspired and remind me that gardening is not a chore but a joy…

To view the full series of videos, which includes tips on how to attract butterflies to your garden and other hands-on advice, go to Growing Wisdom on blip.tv.