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<a href='..'>back to gomepage</a>—<a href='.'>journal</a>
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<h1 id='title'>A gome’s garden</h1>
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<time datetime='Mon, 9 Jan 2023 22:00:00 CST'>9 Jan. 2023, 10:00 PM</time>
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Last year, I got interested in gardening, both as an abstract inspirational concept & as in literal gardening.
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I <a href='./gomepage.html'>wrote previously</a> that I think of this site as a sort of digital garden.
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In the spring, I decided I wanted to have a physical garden as well.
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My job is remote and entirely on a computer.
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Often I find myself interested in physical places of work, and longing for my own physical space in which I do work.
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There’s a felt sense of belonging and ownership to it that I think is missing if you work in the same place you live the rest of the time.
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Starting a garden seemed to me like a way of creating that kind of place for myself.
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<img src='img/garden_early.webp' width='600' height='345' />
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<figcaption>The garden early in the season</figcaption>
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Since I lived in an apartment at the time, I couldn’t really do a full plot in the ground, which is still my dream one day.
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Fortunately, our unit had a ground-level entrance, so I was able to put a planter box outside it.
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I spent a lot of time looking at different plants and developing ideas for the arrangement I wanted.
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My final selection includes a lot of greenery with varied foliage.
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For the flowers the major colors are bright pink and white, with a bit of yellow from the lantana.
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To develop my relationship to them, I gave all my plants names.
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<li>The pink and yellow lantana is Victoria</li>
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<li>The pink geranium is Buffy</li>
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<li>The pink petunia is Shelby</li>
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<li>The ivy is Josef</li>
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<li>The jalapeños are Fani and Fina</li>
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<li>The white alyssums are Spud, Cloud, Peach, and Vince</li>
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<li>The white bacopa is Claudia</li>
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<li>The sprengeri is Gary</li>
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<li>Not a plant, but the gnome on the mushroom is Barvis Mikey Holth</li>
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</ul>
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I also wrote an album of songs for them, but since I haven’t gotten around to recording them yet, I will leave that story for another post.
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<img src='img/garden_late.webp' width='550' height='375' />
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<figcaption>The garden later in the season</figcaption>
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The appeal of the garden as a broader concept is that your role in it is not to control, but to cultivate.
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It’s a space you can plan and labor over, but the main action of growth is something beyond your power.
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In literal gardening, you make yourself one part of a larger natural system that supports the flourishing of your plants.
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Similarly, anything you participate in to bring about a flourishing beyond your control can be thought of as a kind of garden.
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I think the metaphor extends especially well to developing your inner life as a garden, which I think is how I tend to approach it.
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Have you ever tended a garden?
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Do you have a physical space in which you do work?
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Do you have any sort of metaphorical garden you cultivate?
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Let me know your thoughts at my Ctrl-C email: <code>gome<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>@<span style='user-select: none;'> ​</span>ctrl-c.club</code>.
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<img src='img/lot_gnome.webp' width='400' height='488' />
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Bonus image: I found this drawing of a gnome in the parking lot of our apartment. Perhaps a colleague of Barvis Mikey?
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