Working with the fourth dimension

The fourth dimension is time and we all work with the fourth dimension. All living things live in the fourth dimension. Although i am now sure that quantum entaglement will say something else. Can't wait to see what the LHR reports back. Maybe that the fifth dimension is eternity.

But people who look after things - like gardeners and teaches really work very closely with the fourth dimension. Anything we do is always for not just the present, but the future as well.

Over the holidays i have been working very closely with the garden. Really getting to know the place. Everything happens very slowly in this part of the work because the weather is uncertain. It was more or less winter on Monday last week. Only a week ago.

Now we can feel the heat and once again the plant world rises.

Beds take shape

I have planted giant delphiniums and gladioli in front
of the compost to cover this up

Added the path to the compost and the pond is being dug

Honeysuckle and clematis added to a bed filled
with wildflower seeds and love in the mist

Leeks and calendula and peas - all planted by Ghin!

Yesterday i visited Corrymela for the first time. It's a place dedicated to the healing of the wounds left by The Troubles.

I wonder sometimes about healing...

Anyway, i don't want to wonder about healing right now. Later on today i will continue digging and plant some bean seeds. I hope to at least complete the pond and get some seeds in. I have also sowed lots of wildflower seeds around and i won't really see the display but hope that at least there will be lots of bees in the garden.

I love the way i don't really know what i am doing and the thing is that plants, like children, don't tell you if you are succeeding either. In fact there is no such thing as success or failure in working with the fourth dimension. There is only presence. I find that i just need to be present so that whatever happens in the future i can say a few things. Ah, i did that wrong. I need to remember how to do that differently the next time. Or ah i did that right. I must remember how that worked. Or maybe you can't really say you did something right and therefore can apply it again because really, you can't say one thing worked here and will work again.

I suppose that's what you call learning.

The compost which i have been using is great. We made this compost over the years and i have planted some seeds in it about a week ago. Now it is sprouting quite nicely. I was afraid the tilth was not fine enough, but it is despite the broken eggs shells and the bits of wood that never got eaten by the woodlice. Right. I must get to somewhere i can buy bean seeds now. Maybe Lidl. And i also need a rosemary plant too. I was cooking the other day and i said to Ghin, please go and get rosemary from the garden and completely forgot i did not have any rosemary. So i had to make do with bay instead. Which was just as lovely.

Its funny now how just by the smell of the herbs i can tell what they would be good for. Not just food but also for healing purposes. I suppose this is what they mean by learning the language of plants. I have to say that it is only for the more common herbs i have been working with. I was thinking that it would be nice to do a book about working with children and working with nature and the garden, as well as myths and stories. That would be really really nice. I and i could draw it and we could have music as well. And doe shapes and pictures which could be based on numeracy. It would capture the way we work in the school perfectly. With craft thrown in, of course. Right, time for more gardening. Wash up and garden. We musn't lose single ray of sunshine.