3 things you can do to sort out your garden border in the next 30 days

And they're not what you think!

You want more time for you to connect with Nature and quiet your mind because you’ve heard how healing it is.

But you don’t know where to start. You haven’t got time to be searching on YouTube or trawling through books written by people who have no idea what it’s like to be a woman desperate to do something for herself in 2024.

You want to be guided and supported by someone who gets it. Someone who is also wrangling kids, working their butt off both inside and outside the home and who just wants to scream every time she sees the washing basket full to the brim again!

Every week you promise yourself, this week’s the week I make time to get in the garden. And then every week Friday rolls round and the most you’ve managed is a wee in peace while you wait for the kettle to boil.

You think you need more time to make a start on your garden paradise.

But actually if you’re always waiting to have more time then you’re not going to feel any less burnt out. And so the cycle continues.

I get it, we’ve been conditioned to believe that in order to be a ‘good girl’ we must prioritise everyone else over us. Our mothers certainly didn’t model taking time for themselves.

But i’m not prepared to let that keep happening generation after generation, are you?

So what 3 simple things can you be doing to give your border and your wellbeing a boost in the next 30 days.

Start small

All too often I see people go all gung-ho on the garden, trying to ‘sort the garden out ‘ in one weekend. This breaks my heart because they get overwhelmed, feel like they’ve failed by not creating a ‘love your garden-style’ makeover in 2 days and then decide that gardening isn’t for them. When you start small with just one border at a time you can grow your confidence with gardening, learn about what plants like your garden and crucially what plants you love growing there. You’ll start to see that the magic lies in the act of gardening itself and not just how pretty it looks at the end.

Commit to 5 minutes a day

We’re going little and often here ladies. Another issue with the weekend gardening marathons is that they are completely unsustainable. Unless you have no family and friends and just want to hang out with your plants all the time. Something I was seriously considering earlier this week. Because of the way we were raised we think that in order to do something well we have to give it our all and so we give it our most precious commodity, our time. And then we’re disappointed when all we have to show for it is an achey back and a garden that doesn’t look like much has changed.

If you can get in the mindset of time spent in the garden as time spent enjoying doing something for you rather than time to get the garden done, you’ll soon be finding yourself spending more and more enjoyable time out there.

Stop thinking it needs to be perfect

You know, the big beef I have with gardening TV shows and the big flower shows and their show gardens is that they create this unrealistic expectation of what the home gardener can achieve. I’m not saying it can’t be done (I think my garden looks and certainly feels way better that anything they could create), but I am saying it takes time to get it there. And actually do we really want to aim for ‘perfect’? Whatever the fuck that is. What is perfect for one person is entirely different for the next. Thats why when we work together I support you to decide how you want your garden to make you feel.

It can be hard to let go of the idea of perfect when society still places such an unrealistic expectation on women to be constantly polished, have a house and garden that looks like a show home and angelic looking children.

But thats what i’m here to help you do. Embrace a garden thats full of life, colour, scents and textures that makes your heart sing so that you can banish those feelings of burn out once and for all.

If you need more support to Boost your Border don’t forget my Spring Sale is running until midnight tomorrow (28th March 2024). More details below.