Gaiaceous Gardens
Live in the woods…not the weeds.
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Gaiaceous Gardens is a permaculture-based residential landscape management company that specializes in using native plants to create, enhance or restore an urban or suburban forest, food forest and unique wildlife habitat. We also run a working/ teaching urban farm & certified wildlife habitat in Shoreline, WA.
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A neighbor of mine was recently admitted to the hospital briefly to treat a virus run amouk in her body. She shared with me that in the midst of the treatment, she woke up in the hospital bed and everything was upside down - the floor was on the ceiling and vice versa. She closed her eyes, went back to sleep, and the next time she woke up everything was back in its place.
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It fascinates me that we humans are so quick to believe our own thoughts or what we think we see. Reality is subjective and easily influenced by our own limitations, our brain chemistry, our education, etc...I have to admit that I’m as guilty as anyone else there too. Perhaps you’re reading this and believing me right now! I love it when something changes my perspective dramatically or when a point of view so new and different from any I’ve heard before is offered.
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A friend recently shared with me how happy he was at learning about how tiny our “little blue dot” of a planet is in a universe of countless galaxies and therefore how infantessemally minuscule we humans each are by further comparison. It’s not that we’re completely unimportant, but rather that we’re no more important than any other little speck of life out there in the magical sea of the cosmos.
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“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” -Aristotle
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(Photo is of a droplet of rain, smaller than my pinky nail, reflecting the entire crown of the tree above it - a Full Moon Maple)
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#tree #reflection #waterdroplet #perspective #changes #challengeyourself #questioneverything #pacificnorthwest #autumn #rainydayphilosophy
I live one block from two magnificent Elm trees. They were planted close together, by the gate to my neighbor’s front yard fence. When I moved into the neighborhood I mistook them for one, large tree. They’re tall and wide (Elms can grow to 100’ tall and 120’ wide) enough that you can walk past them, forget to look up, and not Even realize that you’re walking under a tree caopy. When a friend asked me to identify the trees, I noticed that I couldn’t grab the name from my memory as quickly I do for many other trees. It’s so rare that I work with Elm trees.
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The Elm (Ulmus sp.) is an ancient and noble tree, if a bit mysterious, and their tragic history has only reinforced their reputation. Norse mythology tells that the first man and woman on Earth were formed by Odin from the trunks of two trees, the woman - named Embla - from an Elm. Celtic mythology says that a grove of Elm trees creates a passage way to the Underworld, to the land of the Faeries and Elves.
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In modern times, the numbers of Elm trees have dwindled, as they’ve fallen victim to the deadly Dutch Elm disease. It is estimated that between the 1930’s and the 1970’s, 70-80 million Elm trees died in the US. Ninety percent of their population was wiped out in the UK. We feel it when we lose that many people in such a short time; everyone is impacted. And, we have felt the loss of the Elm, in a way, in the loss of knowledge and relationship - how many Elm trees do you pass on a given day compared to Maple trees? Years ago, I commiserated with a client for months as we watched their beloved, magical back yard Elm succumb to Dutch Elm disease. Their children had grown up under that Elm and had left home. Now the Elm was leaving too. .
There is a rumor on my block that town officials told my neighbor they needed to cut down their large Elm trees - to which my neighbor replied, “over my dead body.” I don’t know if that’s the precise conversation that transpired, but I like imagine people fiercely protecting the trees around them. In the mean time, I’m just so happy that the Elm trees are there.
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#autumn #winter #elm #tree #americanelm #trees #grieving #honoringthesacred #pacificnorthwest
Favorite Quote:
I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden. ~Ruth Stout
