Comments on: Why We Garden: A Video

By: Hazel

Hazel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:13:09 +0000

Everyone is making me cry with these gardening stories!

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:17:54 +0000

Wow, thank you, Ivette! There is definitely a reason why we are all so passionate about gardening and plants, isn’t there? I suspect many of us have a similar story to tell, so I am very thankful that Susan and Rebecca shared with us.

I’m looking forward to meeting many of my online friends in San Francisco next week at the Flower and Garden Show–I hope you’re there, too!

By: Germi

Germi — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:14:53 +0000

It’s funny – I , like so many others, was very moved by the film – and I think we all may have that similar experience of gardening being the thing that pulled us out of a bleak time in our lives. I found a world in gardening that I had no idea existed before, and the path I took to move away from a painful time in my life was the garden path.
Susan and Rebecca’s film brought this forward in a powerful way – I also well up every time I watch it!
Thanks for this post, Jenny – you speak the truth, and I’m so happy that the power of gardening brought you back to being the funny, cool, vibrant woman I only know online, but feel I know well anyway. You rock.
XOIvette

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:59:34 +0000

Thank you, Rebecca and Elayne! I’m convinced that gardening and plants aren’t just aesthetics (although that’s good, too!), but live-giving things that connect us to the world around us.

“…and the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around.” –from ‘Where the Wild Things Are’

By: elayne takemoto

elayne takemoto — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:42:02 +0000

jenny – as usual, you are an inspiration. you are in good company with susan and rebecca.

By: rebecca sweet

rebecca sweet — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:58:55 +0000

Jenny – I just now read this post and am so touched by it! I so appreciate that you took the time to tell your own story, and what a powerful one it is. It’s amazing, isn’t it, that a person can think of a specific moment in time when the lure of one single plant (in my case a pansy, and in your case that seedling) brought us out of ourselves into the bigger world. What a lovely story – thank you.

By: Jenny Peterson

Jenny Peterson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:22 +0000

Susan, a week later and I just re-watched your video of Rebecca (I was showing my son) and it made me cry again!

By: Susan Morrison

Susan Morrison — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:55:59 +0000

Jenny, what a lovely post. I can’t tell you how wonderful it makes me feel that Rebecca’s story inspired you to think about the poignant role gardening has played in your own life. I know we gardening geeks tend to gush about plants a lot on our blogs, or blather on in a preachy way about sustainability (I’m guilty of that one), but both your story and Rebecca’s show how deeply personal and meaningful a garden can be.