What drives people to garden?

I don’t know what it is about a cool garden that has always drawn humans to them. But they’ve always been extremly popular, and an integral part of peoples’ lifestyles in some way or another.

Most religions feature gardens as the settings for some of the biggest events. According to Christianity, humanity was started in a garden (of Eden) and the son of God was resurrected in a garden. The Buddhist build gardens to allow nature to permeate their surroundings.

If you think about it you'll realize that almost every major palace and government building has a garden. They are almost always quite cool and well kept to boot.

But what’s so great about them?

They’re just a bunch of plants, after all ;)

Of course, the reasoning is fairly obvious behind why people grow food in gardens.

It’s to eat!

If you live off the fat of the land and actually survive on stuff from your garden, it’s easy to understand the reasoning.

But I’m thinking about those people who plant flower gardens just for the sake of looking nice. And put all this decor around in the landscaping.

"There’s no immediate benefit that I can see; you just have a bunch of flowers in your yard!", said an naive onlooker.

However, after thinking extensively about the motivation behind planting decorative gardens, and decorating with garden and outdoor accessories, I’ve conceived several possible theories.

I think one of the reasons people love gardens so much is that while we have a natural desire to progress and industrialize, deep within all of us is a primal love for nature and beauty.

While this desire might not be as strong as the desire for commercialization, it is still strong enough to compel us to create gardens, small outlets of nature, in the midst of all our hustle and bustle.

Since being in nature is like regressing to an earlier stage of humanity, we too can regress to a time of comfort and utter happiness. This is why gardens are so relaxing and calming to be in. Especially when there is beautiful decor in the garden and landscaping and beautiful birds to listen to.

This is why gardens are a good place to meditate and do tai chi exercises. A garden is a way to quickly escape from the busy "technologies" of the world.

I’ve even thought at times that perhaps we as humans feel a sort of guilt driving us to restore nature and care for it. This guilt could stem from the knowledge that we, not personally but as a race, have destroyed so much of nature to get where we are today. It’s the least we can do to build a small garden in remembrance of all the trees we kill every day. It’s my theory that this is the underlying reason for most people to take up gardening as a hobby.

Gardening is definitely a healthy habit though, don’t get me wrong. Any hobby that provides physical exercise, helps the environment, increases the beauty and improves your diet can’t be a negative thing.

So no matter what the underlying psychological cause for gardening end up being, I think that everyone should continue to keep gardening. In the USA especially, which is dealing with obesity and pollution as its two major problems, I think gardening can only serve to improve the state of the world. (that would be a cool movement!)

Of course I’m no psychologist; I’m just a curious, happy gardener. I sometimes stay up for hours wondering what makes me garden and decorate our landscape. What is it that makes me go outside for a few hours every day with my gardening tools, and facilitate the small-time growth of plants that would grow naturally on their own?

I may never know, but in this case ignorance truly is bliss.

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Gardening at Home

Most people that try their hand at home gardening plant flowers; at least they start out planting flowers anyway. Roses will probably be the first thought into any gardeners mind, but roses will take extra time and work, and should probably be left to those who have gardened before. When planting flowers many choices are available, such as bulbs, perennials, and annuals.

Edible plants are another big thing in home gardening. Perhaps the best thing about edibles is the reward of eating them. The list of edible plants that gardeners can grow at home is endless. Some of the most common edible plants in the vegetable arena are, potatoes, peas, corn, carrots, squash, and cucumber. Many gardeners opt for fruits, such as, watermelons, tomatoes, peaches, plums, apples, pears, and apricots. Small fruits, such as strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries usually require less work and less space, making them much more feasible for home gardening. Herbs, most often used as spices in cooking, are growing in popularity every day; some of the most grown include basil, thyme, oregano, parsley, and cilantro. One of the most important things to watch for when planting edibles is insects and disease, after all, you don’t want to miss out on the feast you will get to enjoy from healthy plants.

Many people don’t realize it, but landscaping is a form of home gardening. Landscaping covers many different areas and forms of gardening. You can even classify mowing your lawn as landscaping! Keeping in the line of grasses, landscaping nearly always involves decorative grasses, and the great thing about them is they don’t take much work for upkeep. Types of grass include monkey grass, pampas, buffalo grass, flame grass, and ornamental millet. Landscaping is not just limited to plant life, but also includes anything done to a yard for decoration, such as adding rocks or stones, putting a small pond, statutes, or a waterfall. Then you also have decor that such as gazing balls, decorative bird feeders and hummingbird feeders, bird houses, outdoor solor lighting and much, much, more.

There isn’t much difference between home gardening and gardening anywhere else. Plants still need to be planted in a good location. The plants still need water and they still need the same nutrients. Home gardening shouldn’t cause anyone to get nervous. If you do decide to try homing gardening and finding out that you don’t have a green thumb, don’t get discouraged. Get some information, read up on gardening, and try it again the next planting season.

Another thing to remember is that birds will usually feed all year round, granted they have a place to eat. Make sure to have cool bird feeder that is able to keep them feed throughout the year.

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