In late spring and summer here on the higher lattitudes on the Northern Hemisphere it is hard to find time to update a garden blog. There are so many tasks to do in the garden - so much joy and pleasure to be found in my garden. It is light outside past 10 PM (Now) but sometimes past 11 PM the 3 weeks around summer solstice. The sun rises again before 3.40 so it is light almost 24/7. Something people on lower Lattitudes don't realize.
This year I promised myself to enjoy my maturing garden - enjoying the fruits of many years of dedicated labor. I have smelled the roses almost every day and take time to enjoy the amazings scent of other plants like Mock Orange, Lilies, and annuals like heliotrope, Mathiola, Petunias, Scented Pelargoniums and Honeysuckle.
Struggling with health problems (That I will overcome!!) -I feel I am always falling behind this year and I did not take as many pictures as I used to do. But doing a little all the time goes a long way. Blogging has gotten a lower priority this year, but I have not felt like sitting much at the computer when everything in the garden fills my days with joy - a joy that gives me strength to carry on and endure the long dark winter months.
Since Blogging is also about social interacting I sometimes miss my blogging friends and only briefly visit their blogs, not even taking the time to comment. When it comes to blogging I almost look forward to winter and early spring where there is more time to sit indoors and look back on the season and forward to the next - where new inspiration and impressions are going to unfold.
Did I write maturing garden? Well to be honest, a garden is a work in progress - just like it must have been for composers to compose a wonderful symphony. It is the process we as gardeners learn to enjoy. We never seem to reach the finish line .....
Merry Christmas, folks.
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15 comments:
It is nice to see you posting regardless of what you have to say! Enjoy your garden now with those very long days and we will be here when you return.
Know you have been missed, Niel, and I am delighted to see your post today.
Donna
I look forward to winter for that reason too- more time to visit my favorite blogs and find new ones. It is such a great part of blogging. I've found an easier way to keep up with my reading and commenting in my reader (I use google reader)- I've made 'groups' according to area. Each week I visit one group- I've just recently done this and it really helps. Since I winter garden too, it's important to make it a little easier.
Happy gardening!
Niels - I understand exactly what you mean about finding the time to blog in the summer. I always worry that if I dont post regularly my readers will waunder away and forget me. I find myself getting completely obsessed about stats. Paradoxically there seems to be so much more to blog about in the summer than the winter when I have time!! Hope you start to feel better soon.
Summer it is hard to find time to get to the computer to blog. So glad to see you are there. I love summer in Europe, the long days are so serene.
Good to hear an update, Niels. I'm trying to take lots of pictures to keep my blog going through the winter, when so many of us have more time for indoor hobbies. I've been a bit daunted at all the bug problems facing my english roses this year - curculios, thrips, spider mites, aphids, and other things that eat holes in leaves. Sometime when you have time (maybe November?), will you post on what you do about rose bug problems?
Looking very forward to seeing your beautiful photos.
jim
It must be interesting to have so much daylight, I cannot imagine that. Enjoy your summer and your garden. You can always save your photos and blog during the winter months.
Nice blog. Blog is the best way to share your experience in life. Everything looks perfect on your blog. Cheers :) Happy Blogging :)
Niels, I'm actually quite glad to hear you say this (when I read, I hear a voice in my head saying the words, so in a sense I did hear you say this). I find in this season my attention is called by so many outside things (and I'm also dealing with some chronic health problems as well; finding the way through them can be deeply rewarding but it does take up time and energy. I find what it gives back is a deeper spiritual connection; when you're lying flat unable to do much else, well, it's the only sensible thing to do).
Enjoy your garden. Fill up with sunlight. Maybe garden blogs just need to be seasonal, in whatever way we interpret that.
Neils, I am also delighted to see you post. It looks pretty darn universal, doesn't it? The world took a vote and they decided it was time to mention how much we appreciate you. You post any time you feel like it. You are always inspiring and you have already done the hard work of developing such loyal friends. We are here for you.
I just found your blog today via Blotanical. I am a rose lover also and look forward to reading more of your posts and seeing your photos as well. I love your header picture. Wishing you health, and peace and continued lovely gardens.
FlowerLady
Indeed! there is so much joy and pleasure to be found in my garden. I enjoys garden art and it is my biggest passion.
Niels..I know exactly where you are coming from....I have just posted after 5 months away. I have followed your blog as I live in Canada at probably the same latitude as you....I believe I read that in one of your older blogs. Growing the spectacular David Austin roses as you do was of great interest.
As winter approaches here in Virginia, daylight begins to ebb by 5:00 ... for that reason, this is my least favorite time of year. I find I try to do as much as I did in summer with less daytime available. Fortunately, the garden is beginning to sleep now, so there's less to do. I'll work in the greenhouse, take winter photos, and see how my blog evolves for the winter. Here's wishing you health, and friends, and flowers.
Connie
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