I wasn’t a gardner. My parents weren’t either.But my paternal Grand father must have been one,though I never had an opportunity to ask him.You may wonder why I say this.Its because he planted the tree which still bears fruits some sixty years later.

The tree is as tall as five storied building and was the reason behind many of my childhood daydreams and adventures plus delicious summers eating the firm juicy Jackfruit from the mighty tree.

I think the tree liked me too.I always felt very protective towards it.Its the reason I made plant friends easily and now have been able to increase my family of trees and plants to a number I can’t count.I love picking fruits fresh from trees and eating them.

The best part is, it gave me the first idea of how even a single tall green tree can help nurture a child.I started gardening in October 2014 the very same time I started blogging and writing online.I am not always writing aiming for SEO and money.

Writing is the cheapest ,easiest,most accessible method for my self therapy.To balance my moods indoors, when I can’t visit gardens,parks or go for fun nature walks.I miss nature even more than coffee or tea and the same amount as books.That’s saying a lot since I am a voracious reader .

But I degress .I published the audio book on How to Walk Write and Garden for the Healthy Life you want free on Youtube.

One reason was because, I wanted it to be available for free for those who want to find wellness in their daily life through going back to nature,words,walking  and the simple stuff.Its not rocket science but in this world of sunless rooms ,it’s important to repeat truths ,lest people forget.

On that note sharing my favorite garden quotes-

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.-Greek proverb by Unknown author

Quotes by Alfred Austin

We come from the earth,go back to earth in between we garden

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.

To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.

No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.-Janet Kilburn Phillips

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. – Audrey Hepburn

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
Claude Monet

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.-Claude Monet

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Garden as though you will live forever.-William Kent
Life begins the day you start a garden.
a Chinese proverb

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily Bronte

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.-Mahatma Gandhi

No single sort of garden suits everyone. Shut your eyes and dream of the garden you’d most love then open your eyes and start planting. Loved gardens flourish, boring ones are hard work.
Jackie French

Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson

Did you know ,Monet had his own garden Givenchy which was the inspiration behind his paintings?

My garden is the inspiration behind my painting.