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Garden - Beauty & Creativity

One-hit Wonder

Plant some bulbs on the verge outside your house.

One-hit Wonder

Set aside an area of your garden for contemplation and reflection.

One-hit Wonder

See the Quiet Garden Trust and Reflection Gardens for some inspiring ideas as to how we can use our gardens to create space for God.

Think on This

Be a guerrilla gardener! Make the area near you look beautiful: grow flowers, grow food, regenerate a disused area…. It’s up to you whether you do it at night or not! For some inspiration, watch this video and have a look at Guerrilla Gardening.

Repeating Challenge

Have a look at A Rocha’s art initiative.

Repeating Challenge

Eat outside as much as you can, weather depending of course!

Repeating Challenge

Give your children/grandchildren/neighbour’s children a small bit of the garden or large container that they can use to create their own garden.

One-hit Wonder

Take your children for a ‘nature expedition’ through the garden and see what things you can find, however small your garden might be.

Occasional

Take part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, held near the beginning of each year.