Comments for Botanica - Louisville's Waterfront Botanical Gardens http://waterfrontgardens.org Bringing a Botanical Garden & Conservatory to Louisville, KY Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:50:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Comment on The Effortless Garden by Jean Christensen http://waterfrontgardens.org/uncategorized/the-effortless-garden/#comment-160 Jean Christensen Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:50:20 +0000 http://waterfrontgardens.org/?p=473#comment-160 There is a contest in Holland for the most beautiful garden. I don't know any more specifics and only heard about it through this report (many years ago). Every year home gardeners work to create the most beautiful garden in order to be in the contest. You can imagine the results of these efforts given the gardening resources they have, starting with a fabulous history of beautiful gardens and resources like special bulbs available in their markets. Each year, the story goes, the gardens got more fantastic, until one year the garden that won was one that the owner had just "let go," and nurtured everything that came up. It must have been a most amazing effortless garden! jch There is a contest in Holland for the most beautiful garden. I don’t know any more specifics and only heard about it through this report (many years ago).

Every year home gardeners work to create the most beautiful garden in order to be in the contest. You can imagine the results of these efforts given the gardening resources they have, starting with a fabulous history of beautiful gardens and resources like special bulbs available in their markets. Each year, the story goes, the gardens got more fantastic, until one year the garden that won was one that the owner had just “let go,” and nurtured everything that came up. It must have been a most amazing effortless garden! jch

]]> Comment on The Effortless Garden by FG http://waterfrontgardens.org/uncategorized/the-effortless-garden/#comment-72 FG Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:23:54 +0000 http://waterfrontgardens.org/?p=473#comment-72 You mentioned that gardening is a lot more fun than hanging drywall. No kidding. I realize this and so do most Americans, as revealed recently by Reader's Digest...gardening is the #1 hobby in the United States. Moving soil, digging plants, pulling weeds, and being peirced through by thorns is hard dirty work, but it sure it gratifying. Those who work in parks, public gardens, and on college campuses have the best jobs on the planet. FG You mentioned that gardening is a lot more fun than hanging drywall. No kidding. I realize this and so do most Americans, as revealed recently by Reader’s Digest…gardening is the #1 hobby in the United States. Moving soil, digging plants, pulling weeds, and being peirced through by thorns is hard dirty work, but it sure it gratifying. Those who work in parks, public gardens, and on college campuses have the best jobs on the planet. FG

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