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Two Questions

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Recently...well...a month or two ago...two people asked me two different questions: "Do you do what you do in the garden because you enjoy it or because you are expected to do it?" "What keeps you motivated?" One question came via a phone conversation and one by Facebook, within the space of a week or so. I have been pondering these questions since and I believe the answers are almost the one and the same. To me gardening is, in many ways, magic.  God's magic as it were.  It is the old, old story of death and rebirth.  The circle of life. The sort of magic that never gets old, that never ceases to thrill.  How miraculous is it that you can take teensy little dead things like this...                                                  (source: gippslandgardener.wordpress.com) plant them and get a plant that grows taller than you are and produces, under ideal circumstances of course, pounds and pounds of fruit like this?