Daffodil!

I am SO excited!!!  My first daffodil has bloomed!  Back in May I bought the bulbs and planted them in the ground.  Then I waited.  Weeks passed.  Eventually the leaves started poking through the ground.  I waited some more.  More weeks passed and then the flower buds started appearing.  Days passed.  Days where I checked on the flowers multiple times a day, eagerly anticipating the opening of the first flower.  Now, four months later, my patience is rewarded by my first daffodil with more on the way.  Growth takes time.

 When I purchased the daffodil bulbs, I purchased a mixed collection of seven bulbs.  I planted six of them and gave the last one to my Mum.  They didn't all exhibit signs of growth at the same time.  In fact, I thought one of them would never grow and so I planted snowdrops close around it.  Suffice it to say, I was pleasantly surprised when the leaves of the sixth bulb started poking through the surface of the soil.  Growth happens at different rates.

Besides growing daffodils, I also spent a couple of afternoons planting seeds in my veggie garden.  I planted peas, beans, tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, lettuce, spinach and asian spinach.  The peas, the asian spinach and the beetroots were the first to germinate.  The weeds were even quicker, although it was a bit hard to tell which plants were weeds and which were from seeds that I planted.  Experience tells me that I will need to nurture the plants that I want to grow and remove the ones that I don't in order to get the results, the harvest, that I desire.  Growth requires nurture.

There is a third garden that I am working on, the garden of my mind.  I am growing neural pathways.  I am learning to identify 'weeds' as well as what skills to plant and how to nurture my garden.  I have other gardeners who are helping me.  Gardeners who know more about different plants (skills) and how to grow them.  This growth requires nurture.  This growth happens at different rates.  This growth takes time.