The White Thumb

Hi! It’s me Bailey. I have never written a blog before but I do enjoy writing down my thoughts so here we go. I am 32, married, with 1 dog (Zuzi) and 2 cats (Loki & Ziggy) who I love to death. I am living in Columbus Ohio in the burbs which is also where I grew up. My husband and I just bought a house a little over a year ago! We live on a wooded lot in a suburban neighborhood on about half an acre. It is beautiful. I am envisioning over the years I will try to make it look even more loved and MORE beautiful. I also enjoy the fruits of my labor which is why my favorite season of them all is spring! The little buds peaking out of the newly spread mulch saying hello after the long grey winter. They come up so fast and they unfold so wonderfully I treat them as if they have a soul.

I grew up with a gardener, my mom, and spent all summer every summer outside with the bees, spiders, and the lightening bugs. I would make mud pies with the berries from our Japanese Yew. It’s a shrub that I just googled the name of since I don’t actually know these things just yet. Now that I have my own house with large beds, I can see how hard my mom must have worked to make her garden look the way that it did. Hers was very natural looking, almost messy but just lovely. It was something you would see in a magazine around a cottage. That is what I have always wanted and without realizing it we have planted our plants in a more organized cookie cutter style, but I miss the messy natural look. I think I can do both!

I would love to spend my spare time gardening, problem solving, and then writing about my experience. I am amazed by people who have full time jobs, children, and side gigs. I don’t have children and I am having trouble setting aside time in my day to garden and write but my goal is to start something I can incorporate into my daily life once we have children, something that they too can be involved in and enjoy. It’s one of those things that doesn’t necessarily need to happen, it’s more of a want to happen thing so I put it off. As i’ve gotten older though, I realize those are the more important things in life and the things that should be just as important as the “have to happen” things if not more. Look at me, making something fun a priority! Doing this is really when I feel most like myself but I do have to put a time limit on it otherwise I could do this for hours and then I would be all out of balance again.

My hope is that this turns into a public diary about gardening and just some real life shit. I like to talk about things that are relatable and maybe out of this I will find some like minded friends or maybe not. Maybe, I will just get lost in my creative outlet and just enjoy it alone. I at least want to spread some knowledge about what I learn along the way and share it with people who might be interested!

Happy Gardening!