I gave you a breather yesterday, on Wordless Wednesday, so I hope you took full advantage.

Cause I am back with another post that may push the limits of being garden oriented, but I will try like hell to tie it all together.

I figure that since I am still a newbie garden blogger, I can still get away with some things under the guise of “working the kinks out”. It’s funny, I have a lot of strange ideas that float inside of this partially functioning brain of mine, and some times they work, other times they fail miserably. The fun is putting it all on paper (figuratively speaking) and then trying to fine tune it into something that people may actually enjoy reading (you should see what ideas never made it to print).

Case in point – my attempt at an Eat, Pray, Love remake (see my earlier posts on “Dig, Plant, Grow” – can’t help it, the title still makes me laugh). The idea popped into my head on my drive into work one day and I really thought it could be funny. The problem is in order to appreciate it you would have to know the premise behind the original book, understand gardening and have a bizzaro sense of humor like mine. Based on the early results that are in, the studios will not be knocking down my door any time soon. Yet, I truly enjoyed writing the first two installments as it got the creative juices flowing. I’m not embarrassed by it and it won’t stop me from looking at gardening from a unique perspective. I’ll just keep plugging away at it hoping to eventually find my niche as a blogger (or maybe I have no niche – which could be interesting too).

Now here is where I tie the gardening piece in. Admittedly, all of my garden beds should be nearing completion by now. I have dedicated a lot of time and physical effort over the years to doing so. Yet, there I am on Wednesday morning at 5:45 AM (yes I have followed my plan to work early in the morning) tearing out three shrubs along my foundation with a “new and improved” plan in place. How long will this new plan last? Beats me, but for right now it feels right and gardening is really one of those past times where you learn much more from your mistakes than you do from your successes. So if it doesn’t work, I’ll just draw up a new plan and continue my game of musical transplanting. The fun is in the planning and trying to come up with something that feels magical when it is executed properly – even if that magic is fleeting.

To further the conversation on being “creative”, I have been spending a lot of time trying to come up with a way to make my blog more interactive with those who are reading it. I realize people read it for different reasons and that the level of gardening passion may vary quite a bit. I also realize many of you just want to scan it real quick and then move on. Maybe I am being narcissistic, but I do think there is an opportunity to do something that we could all share together. Here are a few ideas I have been developing:

• All agree on a particular plant to try out together even if it doesn’t necessarily fit your exact conditions. We could all post the photos of the results and maybe learn a thing or ten. I saw something similar on Twitter, so by no means am I trying to claim that I had the original idea.

• Feature a particular location in a different reader’s yard with everyone providing feedback on what to plant and then track the results from beginning to end.

• All agree on a unique topic or discussion point (even if non-gardening related) and then have different readers post their perspectives on it.    

Maybe this is all a bit far reaching for someone like me who is still new to this, but what the hell, why not think big.

Thank you for making it to this point and surviving yet another post. Your feedback would be so so appreciated, even if it is, “more wordless postings please”.

Namaste