Gardening has been and still is my lifelong passion. For many years, it was also my livelihood. I am a certified master gardener. I specialized in flowers. Tulips and freesias grew like crazy in my greenhouses. At the markets, everything was sold fresh. But it wasn’t an easy job. Day and night, one had to monitor the temperature in the greenhouses, water the plants, tend to them, and when they ripened, harvest them quickly. This work requires constant attention and great care. Not only knowledge, but also a sense of the needs and attitude of the plants, with which one must communicate, because plants communicate with each other like living, intelligent beings.
Everyone helped – friends and neighbors. Then, at dawn, one would drive to the market. I’m happy that today I can tend to flowers purely for pleasure and watch how they repay the care.
Gardening is not just growing and caring for plants, it is creation. The gardener creates and nurtures plant life. Plants are living beings that require care and love. In fruits and vegetables, there is our life, we know this, but why does this happen?
In a plant, the process of photosynthesis takes place; it uses solar energy to produce organic substances, then we eat that processed light, and we must break it down again. We excrete the waste, but the light remains.