ENJOYMENT FOR ALL

Gardening is a hobby for all ages, everyone has their own preferences, and thus no two gardens are alike. A garden is like a blank canvas just waiting for someone’s passion to take the space and transform it into a vision of beauty.



It does not matter where you live, even an apartment block will give a keen gardener scope to grow, plants, creating artistic displays using plants for containers, or the use of garden bulbs or bedding plants for a beautiful hanging basket, and exciting ideas for a window box purchasing garden seeds, and use the ‘throw in and see’ method, and wait with anticipation to see how the box turns out.



An ardent gardener may also acquire an allotment from a local authority in addition to their own garden, and plant vegetable plants to consume, or sometimes even enter competitions. Gardening is indeed a hobby that is healthy and brings enjoyment to young and not so young, in fact introducing children to gardening, it very often becomes a hobby for life, furthermore a recent study by the Royal Horticultural Society found that gardening can ‘make children happier’ with additional positive effects such as increased resilience, increased confidence, and more importantly encourages the children to lead healthier lives.



In the early nineteenth century the term Kindergarten was coined, and the direct translation of this term is ‘Children’s Garden’ this idea was to provide an environment is which children could develop by experiencing situations, outside, thus children were introduced to gardening, they love to grow something, either in a pot or scattering some garden seeds, or even plant their own little vegetable patch.



If you are foolish enough to thing gardening is a retirement hobby, you would be so wrong, a huge amount of young people are coming forward to sigh up for an education in horticulture, and specialists colleges are reporting a 25% increase in demand from 16 to 18 year olds for courses, a guess as to why this is happening is the result of the economic downturn, we all know no job is safe, but horticulture seems to be a good bet, after all garden plants, shrubs, and trees need year-round care, and figures show a definite growth in popularity for horticulture amongst young people.



A spokesman for Blooming Direct said "we are a family-run horticultural business based on the beautiful floral island of Jersey, and of course gardening is definitely enjoyed by all age groups, we pride ourselves on quality, and every gardener wants different things, some look for jumbo plug plants, to give the garden a head start, others want an easy life with shrubs and perennial plants, we go that extra mile to give the customers exactly what they want".



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