I have never known more generous people than gardeners. Gardeners are generous with their time, their knowledge, their skills, their plants, their enthusiasm for whatever it is you are undertaking. Their willingness to share in your dream for your garden, their garden, any garden, has always seemed to me to be inexhaustible. We have always found as people who have shared our garden journey with over 40,000 of you over in Instagram land and the thousands of you here now too, in greater detail, and for me personally, during all the years spent working in nurseries, people who garden love to share and that is why the gardening community is such a special thing to be a part of.
We have been on the receiving end of such kindness many a time, in so many ways and as a gardener myself whose spent the last decade building big gardens for our homes, all I want to do is share with the people I know love it like I do. I feel and have always felt compelled to share, our plants, our produce, our processes, our plans, our story, after all this is how we ended up here. It’s never lost on me the complete and utter privilege it has always been to have had this community of gardeners grow up around what we do, or the greater gardening community we have become a part of.
I have received hard-to-find roses in the post from the gardens of others that i just so happened to mention, gardening books too, bought especially for us and something we wrote we were interested in. I’ve received priceless gardeneing advice from folks who live on ranches and deserts in the US, people who are building gardens in Japan, in Israel, in Rome, in Sydney. People living in forests, on farms, in high rises with balcony and indoor gardens, from the humble backyard potterer to botanists in Botanical Gardens and the most famed designers and landscapers around the world who take their time to encourage us and guide us, empathise with us and get excited for us, and it has always been the most wonderful surprise to me, even all these years in. I have been the beneficiary of the most wonderful displays of generosity of spirit from what feels like every corner of life and every kind of garden.
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