“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart
but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this,
the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape,
turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Gardening is another of my hidden hobby. I have been managing a pocket garden at our rooftop for decades already. I would have roses, lilies, huge bougainvilleas and others. I spent a lot buying and collecting different kinds of euphorbias as well.
But when I started taking care of herbs and vegetable vines, I wanted to turn that small place to be of more use, say for healing and vegetation, after all, I have been converted from a typical Mama to one driven, self-proclaimed health-freak Mommy.
There’s something about growing flowering plants at home that intrigues and fascinates me. But the joy of using your plants in your own kitchen and for the family's consumption is matchless. But like any garden saying, "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." This may be metonymic but I'm literally using it.
So nothing would please me more than having a meal or snack in the middle of a cozy, country garden.
