Please be Patient while pictures load. The process of working the soil for planting, adding the amendments, planning for the best results, sowing the seeds, waiting for germination, adding nursery stock or some you have started on your own, nurturing through the growth period and on to harvest or the end of the season, being the end of a wonderful cycle. A person reaps the rewards of looking at a well groomed bed even though the fingers, back and knees ache for having achieved it. Watching the process of maturity and blooming while providing continual care is another reward. Like toys, one can pay much or little for the pleasure of having.
Gardening is much like life.
The harder one works, the more pleasure one gets. Sometimes things happen to ruin all of one's efforts such as too little moisture, too much moisture, hail, wind, pests, disease, frost and snow. And a gardener takes that chance and makes the best of it, knowing that all the efforts will not be wasted. Gardening can be done on a small scale such as a potted plant within the home to a different scale of planting acres of forests, to woods, to beds, to containers, bogs and ponds. The dreams of a gardener are endless.