What comes to mind when you think of gardening? For some it might be a chore to rake the leaves or mow the lawn, but for others gardening evokes every sense; the smell of honeysuckle on the breeze; the sound of the robin’s first call in the morning alerting the other birds he has made it through the night; picking the first dahlias you have tended to and tasting the first strawberries you have lovingly grown. It is about learning to appreciate nature and how to respond to it, noticing the changes of the seasons by the colour of the leaves or the heads of the daffodils breaking through the soil to announce the end of winter, hailing the beginning of spring.
The first thing you will discover when you start gardening is that
