Garden Sense

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts." 

- Sigmund Freud

Ancient Egyptians believed in flowers as divine messengers. Temples overflowed with garlands and arrays. The lotus represented rebirth. Its fragrance traveled the mind from sensual to spiritual realms.

Gardens help individuals bridge the gap between doing and being. Tending a garden involves a sense of give and take. One supports the landscape and it gives back.

Sue Stuart Smith writes that flowers change the attitude in a room with their colors and scents.Arrangements encourage the flowering of creativity and kindness. Smith says, "Flowers are known to trigger a true smile, an involuntary smile, known as a Duchene smile, which unlike a polite smile, lights up the whole face, indicating genuine pleasure."

Blossoms in a garden offer gifts to all the senses: light, air, fragrance, texture. One feels a sense of continuity.









"It is in playing and only in playing that an individual child is able to be creative and it is only in being creative that an individual finds the self." - Donald Woods Winnicott

A garden invites playfulness.  Discover the joys and discipline today.

Write your garden sense.