Your Garden’s Flowers : In Consideration of Why They Bloom

Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by admin in Techniques
Tags: Hustle dance, In Consideration of Why They Bloom, Jazz, jazz Blues, Jazz Classic, Jazz Soul, Jazz Taxes, Your Garden's Flowers

I will admit that I love flowers. I also love gardening. I am not the most proficient or the neatest of gardeners, and I have a taste for the less than manicured bed.

Why do most of us garden? I think there is a combination of an appreciation for the plants themselves and their attributes of beauty such as foliage, shape, stem color and, of course, their flowers. We wish to surround ourselves with the beauty of plants. We do so by in a sense, playing God on our little acre (or 1 /3 of an acre in my case). This is not altogether bad. But any time we pretend to be omnipotent, a little bit of humility is a good thing.

There are two aspects of our obsession with flowers that we have to think about: 1) do they bloom just for us, and 2) do the plants in our gardens exist in a vacuum separate from the surrounding environment? The answer to both questions is no.