The thing about a garden

The thing about a garden is multi dimensional and more often than not  about something totally foreign to traditional gardening. My grandparents were farmers and then in retirement gardeners. We stayed with them for a couple of years when I was a little girl. Each morning my Poppie would take me out in the back garden and would teach me the names of all the vegetables and herbs that he had planted and together we would water weed and harvest. The garden lay snugly under al large macadamia tree and was surrounded by a fence hanging with flowers and berries. In the afternoons my Grandma would take me through her garden and teach me the names of she flowers and shrubs, MIllie was all about beauty and Roy was all about function. 

Grandma has a tale relating to the people in her life to tell with each plant she introduced me to and Poppie regaled me with the general history of each plant. Each growing entity held a different meaning to each of my grandparents. It wasn't a garden it was a history lesson and a photo album and a story book of fairy tales and mythologies.

Now sitting in the Sound Garden 30 seconds away from my office I see profit and loss, marketing campaigns, economic structure, edifices of civilisation, human resource program's and market cycles. 

Without a constant strong connection to nature, it is all too easy to get caught up in the day to day ebb and flow of business. All it takes is five minutes to water and weed and harvest and I reconnect myself back to my big picture plan. I remember the cycles. I recall my vision. I reintegrate my goals and I recollect my courage and faith in myself to keep moving forward towards them. 

Imagine if every business had a garden - even just a couple of pot plants - to reconnect their teams back into the nature of what they are of there on the first place.