I LOVE HAVING pots in a garden. Planters for growing plants with different textures, shapes, colors, and ancient containers that another gardener once owned and may have passed along, or I can discover and purchase them at second-hand shops (brocantes in France) and yard sales.

A plant in a pot is a garden – a miniature landscape. It’s a sacred place for a plant. This pot is its home and you get to love and care for this plant, and it counts on you to live.

We nurture a plant in a pot, and a plant encourages us back.

There’s art in gardening with pots – creating and playing with colors, size, shapes, quantities+++

Some plants thrive in pots and do poorly when planted in the earth. They like to be potted and contained.

I believe you can never have too many planted pots –  orderly and free – profuse, spilling over the tops of containers – organized and wild – on a deck or patio or front door, inside your home.

Plants connect you to nature, inside and out.

Large or small, a garden makes us grateful and fills us with happiness.

We are like pots – contained in our body and home – free in our thoughts and movements, overflowing, blooming with abundance and also with some limits – still growing and changing (more mobile than a situated pot).

We’re stationary and free to move around at home, in our community, and travel the world or to stay right where we are and want to be.

I’m sharing with you one of my favorite gardening quotes by Julie Moir Messervy:

“I have found, through years of practice, that people garden in order to make something grow;
to interact with nature; to share, to find sanctuary, to heal, to honor the earth, to leave a mark.
Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.”

See what I mean about gardening with pots and expressing yourself? I’ve been doing it for over 60 years and I’m still on fire with gardening love and creativity.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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This will also encourage you – Do What You Love Daily.

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