I really love gardening. When I go to stately homes and botanical gardens I always come home with renewed passion for turning my own backyard into an English walled garden complete with espalier fruit trees, neatly trimmed hedges, a koi pond. Oh and I'd love to have a 100 year-old Yew tree somewhere.
My current project is planting a Hornbeam hedge (carpinus caroliniana) to create a little privacy barrier for the backyard. American Hornbeam, also known as ironwood, will grow into a tree if you let it, but it can be pruned back to form a nice hedge. I plan to leave a gap in it for a gate, and then eventually train the hedge up into an arch over the gateway. Here's me in front of what I want my hornbeam hedge to look like someday.
But the title of my blog doesn't just refer to actual gardening. I am a doer. I am happiest when I am doing some activity, be it trumpet playing, bicycling, home remodeling, silversmithing, or gardening to name a few. Since I got married three years ago I have been learning to just relax and be. My wife enjoys sitting at a coffee shop and talking or reading. This is hard for me. But, since I value her as the most important person in my life, and love spending time with her more than anyone, I now go to coffee shops on occasion.
So here I am, a doer, writing a blog, something I have long derided as a pointless waste of time. Well, I can't guarantee how often I'll write in it. Incedentally, my two incredible sisters both write blogs, which when I can sit still long enough I really love to read.
