Posted on June 29, 2007 in Uncategorised
Nature has destined plants to be our most faithful and useful companions. But modernization tends to snatch them away from our day to day life. Gardening is the way out to feel that we are in their very company and this oneness with them unfolds the multiple pages of ‘uses of gardening’ – one by one.
Do we have distaste for work? If it is not forced on us and on the contrary we volunteer for it we are attracted to it. Moreover, if the work is creative in nature we have immense love for it. Gardening falls in that category. When we work in our gardens we feel happy. In the midst of lustrous green we feel relaxed to discover the soothing touch of peace of mind. Peace and happiness support our health, both mental and physical. This in itself is a priceless gift of gardening!
But there are plenty more uses of gardening.
- If one is pinched with loneliness or is confused as to how to spend leisure hours, gardening is a very effective remedy. Again, the look of one’s own residence may appear repulsive to the owner sometimes and may engulf him in depressive mood. Just add a garden to his house and that makes him smile and with him smiles each in his family.
- In this age of environmental pollution gardening helps us breathe freash air. It can meet some of our daily needs of vegetables, fruits and flowers. Fresh and nutritious food adds to healthy living.
- Gardening develops friendship among those who cherish it as their common hobby. Their discussion centers round something pure and transparent emanating from their love for nature.
- Gardening can even help us in businesses like catering, floriculture and harvesting of medicinal plants.
- Gardens are live classrooms to understand plant life and nature. Children learn from watching a garden and grasp easily their class lessons.
- Now think of a birthday or wedding party held in the garden of the host. The venue itself adds to the joyous mood of the guests, the adults and the children alike.
- Amazingly, gardening can bring in finer changes to a person’s personal traits. It inculcates patience in a person’s mind. He understands that nature will not change its course to suit his convenience but he will have to tune himself to its rules. Plants will not speed up their growth to his liking, but he will have to accept nature’s clock. Plants patiently bear environmental hardships and diseases and so he learns how to bear patiently similar circumstances. So many plants live as good neighbors in his garden and so he learns to develop friendly relations with his neighbors. Gardening develops inquisitive mind in him and inspires him to be research-minded.
A garden can really be the gardener’s paradise, a paradise on this earth!
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