#magical gardening

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

[onceandfutureclotpoll]

Title: Green Thumb

Author: supercalvin

Rating: Teen and up Audiences

Summary: Arthur came into the nursery to look for some plants to liven up the house he had inherited. He had expected to look at some grass, leave, and then buy plants at a local store instead. What he hadn’t expected was a garden that made him feel like he entered a magical land, with a quaint run-down house and a clever green-thumbed owner.

[kafkasapartment]

Sunflowers, c. 1982. Andrew Wyeth. Watercolor and pencil on paper

[bebs-art-gallery]

𝓑𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒍𝒚 𝓕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝓜𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝓕𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝓦𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅

© Malina Dowling

[jazzymini]

flower power! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

[the-crow-in-the-blooming-tree]

[happyheidi]

𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗀𝖺𝗋𝖽𝖾𝗇 𝖻𝗒 𝖫𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗌𝖺𝗒 𝖱𝖾𝗇𝗍𝗈𝗇

[spiritofthemeadow]

ig - afternoondreams

[animeglitch]

[victormalonso]

memories from the magic garden | © víctor m. alonso

[tygerland]

Maxfield Parrish The Lantern Bearers. 1908. Oil on canvas: 101 × 81 cm (40 × 32 in).

[fairytaleprincessart]

✨ 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓮𝔂 𝓹𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 💵

ʀᴇʙʟᴏɢ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴘᴀʀᴋ ꜱᴏᴍᴇ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ʟᴜᴄᴋ!

🤑💶💷💰🧧🪙🫰💴

[kaycartoons]

I wanna share some of my favorite art styles from cartoons and animated movies. (This doesn't depict ALL the animation styles I like and please feel free to share your favorites as well)

[vanalex]

[lydiacreative]

Cat's Oasis °｡⋆

This place would heal me frfr

[laorelcreates]

A pattern version of my latest piece "Metamorphosis".