Low Maintenance

I agree with Paul Harrar that we should also spend more time contemplating,
rather than working against nature in our gardens.  But I would like to say
that I, for one, find an enormous spiritual (and physical) energy from
working in the garden as well.  Even mundane tasks such as dead-heading,
weeding, pruning and the like give me great satisfaction.  Yes, my results
(in Southern California) are inevitably less natural than that of a nature
preserve, but that is precisely part of the spiritual pleasure for me.  For
me, finding the right plant combination and seeing it work, planting seeds
and seeing them grow and bloom, and watching the progression of the garden
gives me a daily spiritual lift.  All of this has to be tempered with other
considerations, such as the pleasure of creating a garden that works with
nature, rather than against it.  But (as others have said in the list),
almost every avid gardener has something in him or her which wants to push
against the limitations of the environment.
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