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The Daily Gardener · Apr 9, 2019 · 9m

Today's thought is exactly that: How we think when we garden.

Emerson wrote:

Blame me not, laborious band,

For the idle flowers I brought;

Every aster in my hand

Comes back laden with a thought.

How wonderful our gardens are for thinking.

Creatively.

Therapeutically.

Soulfully.

Every bloom can be a vessel for an idea, a hurt, a solution.

I had a fight with my daughter the other day. We were getting no where. Exasperated and just plain tired, I had her help me with the houseplants. In case you're wondering, we were spring cleaning all the greens - even the fake ones! There was no talk. No more…