A little diversity is a good thing in a garden

Now that the garden is pretty well finished and moving toward some form of maturity, I have lots of time to sit, think and observe and I’ll share some of these thoughts and observations with you from time to time.

I love finding new critters in the garden. Every one that says ‘hi’ means a new aspect in the net of diversity that I’ve established at Ligaya Garden and adds to the resilience of the ecosystem and that’s got to be good!

Every new critter I see reassures me that there’s one less species gone extinct out there in the big world…

I've mentioned before that when designing anything in life, even something as deceptively simple as a garden, I tend to consider Indra’s Net. It's a concept I borrowed from Hinduism and is represented by an cosmic net where in each knot is a gemstone that reflects every other gemstone in the net.

Looking deeper, you can focus on the gemstones in the net or the strands of the net themselves. It’s all about connection and relation, whichever way you look at it. You might also think of the evolution of a garden as mycelial, rhizomatic or web-like, it all depends on where you are in life.

It’s easy to apply this to gardening, just think that everything that you plant or build must relate to other plants and structures (and yourself of course). Everything must influence, if not everything else, then as many things as you can allow it to influence.

I probably couldn’t do this on a farm scale block but in a little place like Ligaya Garden, it’s pretty easy with a bit of practice.