My gardening journey started last year during the first national lock down. I was on a mission to get my garden to flourish, whilst doing so I have experienced the amazing joy from growing my own flowers and making them flourish. It has been such a life changing experience that I am now on a real big mission to share this joy I’ve found with all the people that I possibly can. I am so passionate about spreading this joy and to help encourage people to get growing and flourishing, especially those that have never grown before.
I started gardening for the first time in my life last year. I had a 6 month old baby and if I'm honest was struggling with not seeing friends and family. I had no outlet at all. I woke up one day with a drive to make my garden flourish. We had recently moved into our home, and this was my first ever garden. It was an overgrown, dull space crying out for some life!
I got my hands on any seed packs and bulbs that I could and during my baby boys nap time I found myself sowing seeds, growing plants and digging up parts of the garden at every opportunity! All of the shops and garden centres were close, I had to make do with what I had. By rummaging in my garage for 5 minutes I found containers that could grow about 50 plants at least. I was sowing seeds in everything from old paint trays, food packaging to boxes wrapped in plastic bags.
By the summer I somehow managed to grow my own flowers and transform my garden into a vibrant colourful garden which is now full of wildlife.
Now nearly 3 years later I am totally flower and garden crazy! MAKE IT FLOURISH is a movement to help encourage others to get growing. I go live on Instagram for a ‘Sow & Grow Along’ for us all to make it flourish together! This session is great for a garden newbie that perhaps has never grown before or for anyone that wants to join in for some fun! It is all about connecting with people, growing and making it flourish together! During these current times it is more important than ever before to keep talking with people. This Sow and Grow along has already had an amazing impact on people's lives, I've had messages from fellow flourishers saying how it is already helping their mental health. It has given people hope when there hasn’t been much in the world. Not only that people are discovering the absolute joy from making it flourish. Each Sunday I go live sowing and planting in action, each week is focusing on a different plant to grow