Maggs' hortus

12/05/2022

Gardening all week...helping others and yesterday and today my beloved babys. So great for the mind, a bit of sunshine and exercise. Totally at peace.

22/04/2022

Watering system all in place in the back garden. Not quite as I want it but sufficient for now. Now my favourite part, watching it grow.
Pray for no frost surprises and nightly slug patrols.
Will prep front garden next week.
Enjoy your weekend everyone

11/04/2022

Out all day in the garden today. Missed it last week and I feel my stress dissipating through the soil as I plant my plans for the summer. I kept thinking of the saying, "if life gives you lemons, make lemonade". Well, what do you do if you dont like lemons? What then? Should we just settle for that and try to make it work because that is what we got given?
Life to a certain extent is there for you to mold. Any thing big or small is an accomplishment. Take time to enjoy your journey. I have decided the lemon tree must go and I will sow different type of seed. It might work it might not but I am sure I will learn something.
If the life lemons you have are enjoyable, make sure that lemonade is the best you have ever tasted.

11/04/2022

https://youtu.be/4aeDlZOD-B0

Got out early into the garden today. I had this song in my head all day. Such an amazing piece of art.

Beyoncé opens the 94th Academy Awards with a performance of the Oscar-nominated song, “Be Alive,” at the Tragniew Park Tennis Courts in Compton, California, ...

24/03/2022

When I feel stressed or unhappy, my go to place is my garden. Weather felt like an early summers day. One side of my garden all piped up and ready to go. Big clear up started, bunny rabbit seedlings thinned out. Onion sets in(yes I know they are late) and a make shift frost protector for dahlias and summer seedlings.. all done now until next week.

22/03/2022

Sooooooo. Today has been an absolutely beautiful day. It was actually a bit to warm for the jobs I had in mind. So many things to do before I get to my favourite job, growing plants. I have decided to stop hording things that never get used, so trying to put these things to use or pass them on. This afternoons job was repairing my decking and using up some slate tiles I found in a skip. I think it looks pretty good, even thought it showed me how wonky my rendering was lol. I used a sprit level and all sorts. More foundation work tomorrow. Make hay while the sun is shining.

01/03/2022

Weather is not the best but a couple of jobs a day and before you know it the garden will be ready.
On the first day of meteorological spring tulips are up, garlic is well underway( if I can stop the animals from digging it up) and sweetpeas under cover look healthy.

Pond filter cleaned. Disgusting job but now the plants can grow over it.

On a side note a few hours in the garden will pay for your calories spent on your pancakes tonight. Happy shrove Tuesday x

22/02/2022

https://youtu.be/ea2WoUtbzuw

Got into the garden this morning. Sun was shining with a invigorating breeze. I can not say the weather is enjoyable to me but it is everything the garden needs. Sweet peas are popping their heads through the damp soil and I have put up my cold frame to help protect them in our every changing and very unpredictable weather.
My head has felt super muzzy and extremely busy the last couple of days and the garden provides me with the mind space to feel like the world has momentarily stopped spinning all the while making me conscious of time.
Sometimes when I am unsure, I go back to a place I know to be true. The garden gives me that. It reminds me that life in its essence is simple, with very little needs. I like to convince myself that I am more evolved than the flora and forna around me, but am I? The ability to have consciousness thought is nothing but a gift and curse. Maybe we are the very thing that most humans would hate to be, a hive. Nothing more than a worker bee or an ant, just here for the purpose of fulfilling our debt to nature. Maybe our desire to prove the evolution of our species will be the very thing that leads to our demise.

The extended version of Clair de Lune.This song is my favorite music from Debussy. Thank you to Debussy for the lovely composition and Orchestre Radio-Sympho...

14/02/2022

https://youtu.be/UGGZ-XRHRx0

Happy valentines day.
Find that thing.......your head space where you are at peace, where you can "sit and watch the grass grow", where the most is said in silence.
Here is to finding your love.
Your place, person your peace.
Love isn't always found in a person but always in a purpose.
Fo me it is the support of my husband,
The cuddle of my dogs,
The love of my family,
And tendering to my very much loved garden.

Happy valentines day

Music video by Domani performing Henny & Crystals. Forever Recordshttp://vevo.ly/iDN8HB

12/02/2022

https://youtu.be/Gjby7AcQM2U

As I walk to work, "still wonder"playing through my headphones. I wonder about the life around me, the day feels so beautiful. She shows strength in every day, signs of new life are all around. New shoots on bare stems, new leaves from bulbs, poking through barren patches of soil. Tuffs of fresh green grass in between cracks in the path, in a sea of concrete. The sun shines on my skin and I walk a little taller. The fresh breeze reminds me I am awake. Our mother reminds me of her power. Her ability to give breath to new life, her ability to love and forgive me.
Make this new day a better one.
The complicated, simplicity of the world around us is here for us to respect and care for, for one day it will be not be as we know.

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08/02/2022

I have not updated this post for years. With 2 years of lockdowns and bundles to do. I thought I would bring it back with my gardening and its progress....my progress..

I am on a very uphill struggle to get better mentally and physically and day one of no comfort eating has been trying.

With an abundance of energy due to my zero late night snack...(4 cheese and marmite toasties) I decided on some very late night gardening.

1 tray of sweet peas, half a tray of cosmos, half a tray of delphiniums and 4 pots of dahlias. All planted up and ready for some tlc.

Excited to feel positivity and optimistic to a fruitful year.

Nothing is ever complete without a helper or 2.

Monty and his 2 will have nothing on 1 woman and her 2 dogs.

Take care x