It took her a while, but Tina Tinaburri finally figured out how to be one of those people who enjoys creating a garden
I’ve always wanted to be a garden person, the kind of person who sits in an Adirondack chair, amid manicured flowers and pots of flowing foliage, sipping homemade French press coffee at sunrise; the kind of person who enjoys a slow dinner in the same chair, a glass of pinot gris on a bistro table; the kind of person who, an hour later, enjoys an evening espresso, lost in the colours of the sunset. I’ve always wanted to be that person.My uncle and aunt are garden people.
I’ve tried to follow their leads. When I first moved into my home 12 years ago, I planted marigolds, tomatoes and oregano. I watered and weeded. I bought an Adirondack chair. I swept away leaves and dirt to make my surroundings as pleasant as possible. I grew frustrated with myself. Here I was, privileged enough to have a bit of garden in the heart of the city and I couldn’t sit in it and enjoy it. To make my situation more shameful, this bit of garden, largely planted and manicured by my retired parents, was home to a grapevine that provided shelter from the sun, an apple espalier, a blackberry bush and planters that draped with sweet potato vine and blossomed with begonias and ornamental grasses.
But while the seasons came and went, the guilt stayed, as did my desire to be a garden person. Surely, there must be something that I was not seeing, not appreciating. And the only way to discover what I was missing was to go back out.
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