More on snowdrops

Someone told me may talk of snowdrops inspired them to go out into the garden and have a look if theirs had come up and then off they went to the garden centre. Gardening is such an important past-time a time to reconnect with the earth and remind us that there are other things going on apart from our own little dramas. To plant seeds and bulbs and watch them grow and see them wither and die particularly if they are in the wrong place. Gardening to me is like life, you see what ground you have got and then figure out what to do with it from there, when things do not work out you try and move them around a bit until to reach the point when it flourishes. Well if you reach that point.

Sometimes you plant something, a big weed comes along and tries to strangle you tightly around the neck you just have to recognise it in time before it strangles you.....other times something pops up in the most unlikely of places, a seed of something carried on the air and you have to decide if you are going to let it grow or try and take it out, denigh it's existence.

Your not always right but just have to keep on trying.When the Women's Tec started their horticulture course we quickly discovered that most of the people living in inner city Belfast did not have gardens and they had to work out a way to reconnect them with nature the only way to do it was to get them to build window boxes and plant them I remember young women planting seeds she was so excited by her window box and the opportunity to see things grow, she stayed after the class to finish it off and said "I can''t believe I made that. I cant believe things will actually grow in that, everyone says I'm useless and can't do nothing I'm just amazed"

We take so much for granted being brought up in the country, so much we learn through observing nature around us that we forget that many other people do not get that opportunity. They observe other things???? and we wonder why life is as it is?...........................