Wednesday, October 29, 2008
My Eden's location slightly changes
I've been trying to maintain a diary there in that link. To avoid repetetion, I've given the link.
Some of my pictures used by others
http://plantsbulbs.suite101.com/ Angela England
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/manage/viewstory.php?rid=1699 Susanne Talbert
Angela England again, using picture of Sweet Violet.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
My Gardening Story
It's grown greeeeen!
READ ON!
It was July 2001 and the internet had become accessible even to me. Even to me! I had developed a great curiosity to identify by name the plants that grew in our premises. I had borrowed a book from the library but my searches found no direction. I went to Google where many of my plants were identified. It was here, a particular website showed up often - it was here: DAVE'S GARDEN {DG}. I wanted to know what it was. I buried my head deeper only to find myself being drawn like a bee to a flower and found my feet wet!
I must tell one thing. Not all are really fortunate enough to have space for a garden or even think about it, leave alone gardening. To me, gardening is one of the holiest and sacredest of hobbies one can pursue, provided they have the space, time a little bit of money to set apart. I can tell you, it is fully worth every minute you spend, digging, cleaning, nurturing, pruning, watering, or even sitting amongst the plants out there in a garden which we can call it our own.
Back to DG, I began watching the forums and it tasted like my own cup of tea. The tenor in the threads appeared friendly and honest - it still is. I signed up almost automatically and instantly. It did not take long to realize that I was amongst a most helpful and magnificent group of gardening people. There were already 2745 of them between me and Dave Whitinger, the man behind all this.
The seed of gardening was sown in me when young probably by my grandmother who used to dig a bit and water the plants with a hosepipe and I along with my young brother made pathways for the water to flow to all plants. I can remember the thrill I got from growing my own plant from seed (it was a cosmos) with the help of a friend. This was some 30+ years ago. We moved in to our great-grandfather's property 9 years ago and I owe my sustained enthusiasm to the space around the house as well as to my friends at DG, which has resulted in another DG?.. "Dinu's Garden"!! "Dinu's Eden" is what I chose to engrave on an old wooden plank to give that vintage touch.
A few of my videos here