Express Yourself Through Gardening

Gardens offer you one of the best opportunities to express yourself. You can often get a good idea of a person's personality just by looking at their garden. It can show you whether they are free spirited with color and plants splashed everywhere like an expressionist painting, or prefer a more organized and regimented approach to life.

Color variations in a Garden Nasturtium in a home garden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Planting your garden gives you the freedom to choose the colors that make you feel good, and the colors and plants that make you feel happy. You have the choice to add flowers that have the fragrances that you love to smell or remind you of some place that you might have once visited.

You can change with the seasons just as your garden does and add color to a gray day. Gardening gives you an excuse to get outside on a gray day and enjoy all the color that you might have missed inside avoiding the weather.

Adding colored pots and sculptures can brighten a winter garden and add more contrast to the colors of spring, summer and fall. You can change the style and look of the garden as you make changes in your life so that one year is never the same as the next or you can choose to keep everything the same if you don't like change just as an old tree stands from one year to the next.

The beauty of a garden can change your moods and make you feel good just being there. It can make you realize that the important things in life are the little things that are all around us all the time.

There is life in the garden and the garden will always welcome anyone who wants to share in the beauty of that life. It's no wonder that so many people love gardening, because there is so much to love about it. Why not get outside and into the garden today, and see what magic you can make?