The Small Garden Gift

I was talking to one of the young females at the checkout at the New World Supermarket about the flowers I had just brought from the Supermarket. I got some marigolds and some other smaller flowers.

I was telling this young woman (I think she is High School age) that the flowers provided a person an instant garden. I was trying to give her an idea for a garden of her own that was easy to maintain and always would have blooming flowers in it. I love encouraging people to take up gardening.
When I left the Supermarket I thought that I should have mentioned to her about the Small Garden Gift.

I got into the habit as a young adult of giving people plants instead of flowers that would die in a few days after being received. The idea was that the gift would last longer, even years if the person received a plant.

Going past David Broman’s house on my way home (he is a neighbour in our street on the lower corner) I was always admiring the flowers in the two small gardens in his front yard. I remember seeing his father from time to time doing the gardening and putting in wonderful flowers. I noted that there never were seedlings in the garden, only grown flowers and it occurred to me that he was getting the plants from flowers, plant gardening places, that sell plants that are nearly or are fully grown. Much the same as the Marigold flowers in the New World Supermarket.

It was then that I realized that a person can give a garden as a gift to someone else by using these mostly grown flowers and plants.

An example is, that if someone is in hospital and in recovery. You can go to their house and find a part of the garden that is neglected and dig it up and plant a nice patch of beautiful flowers and plants and then when the person comes out of hospital you can present the garden to them as a gift.

If you have a grandparent and you want to surprise them with a gift you can give them a small garden the same way.
The idea is to give them a fully grown garden where there was nothing or a neglected garden.

If the garden is for the elderly or someone who does not have a green thumb, you can use the Small Garden Gift as an excuse to visit them once a week, to water and weed in the garden while talking to the person who received your blessing, the Small garden Gift.