Things to do this week in your garden- 21st April 2024

Mindful Gardening and Floristry activities to calm your mind and soothe your soul

This week has been an utter rollercoaster. The high of chasing the Muddy Stilettos award win and then not getting it. Interspersed with a sickness bug for my eldest and living on tenterhooks waiting for the rest of us to come down with it. Were in the clear so far…..

It’s my only fear, being sick. Completely irrational I know, but it can occupy my mind for days if I think there’s a chance I could be sick. Not ideal when one has two verified germ buckets living in the house with you.

I’ve had to dig deep on the reframes this week to stop myself spiralling in to a place of not good enough (the award loss) or abject terror (the thought of being sick) and the one place that allows me to do that is my garden.

Ever changing and yet ever the constant. My body and mind know when i’m out there that they can be moving yet still, creating yet calm. It’s because i’ve crafted such a strong relationship with my green space over the years that I take all of my worries there. It helps to soothe me, to help me process, to order my thoughts, to move forward and not dwell on that which I cannot control.

It’s this relationship I want to help you cultivate with your garden. So that you have a safe place to go in times of joy, in sadness and everything in between. Because it’s good for us to feel a spectrum of emotions, despite what our upbringing or society might tell us. But when we are having to relearn that, we need a safe environment in which to do it.

Your garden can become that in less than 5 minutes a day.

Here’s how….