Finding wonder in the world
As we continue to bumble along in this very stop, start, slow, soggy weather-laden challenge of a gardening year, we have to find warmth and wellbeing where we can. To make the best use of even slightly warmer moments and marvel in the glory of blue sky days when the whole garden delights and positively glows in the sunshine. Everything is brighter, including ourselves, and flowers and foliage look especially vibrant as a result. Garden wildlife also emerges gleefully and everything feels so incredibly wonderful and alive.
We have to therefore savour these moments, these days, as best we can around our day-to-day schedules, to grab our fill of sunshine to help see us through to the next. We must take each opportunity to be outside to warm our spirits, in the way a day of sunny gardening truly can. This year a day without rain is also a boon, it’s the 2024 equivalent of a glorious summer, so we work with what we have. It’s not easy by any means but we are getting the lighter end of extreme weather when you compare what some counties are currently having to contend with, such as recent 50 degree heat in India and Syria.
On sunnier (or at least dry!) days I have been making excuses to take phone meetings outside in the garden. I have also been marvelling again at the garden wildlife, seeking solace in the ever increasing year-on-year array of new creatures that reside within it. I like to watch them for a time as they go about their business and observe their rituals and roles and the parts they play in the grand scheme of it all. It can help make the weather and the other challenges somehow smaller by comparison. The natural world carries on regardless as best it can
