Why Do We Love Gardening?

I'm not sure why people have always been attracted to gardens. Yet, they've always enjoyed huge popularity and played a crucial role in the lifestyles of individuals. Most religions use gardens as the locations for some of their most important ceremonies. Christianity holds that both the creation of humanity and the resurrection of God's son took place in gardens. Buddhists create gardens so that nature might infuse their surroundings. Almost all significant palaces and administrative structures have gardens. But what exactly makes them so great? After all, they are merely a group of plants.

Of course, the justification for growing food in gardens is very obvious. It's for food! It is simple to comprehend the logic if you rely entirely on food from your garden and the land to exist.

But I'm also considering those who create flowerbeds only for aesthetic reasons. I don't see any apparent advantages; you have a lot of flowers in your yard. But after giving the reason for creating ornamental gardens a lot of thought, I've come up with a few hypotheses.

The fact that we all have a deep-seated passion for nature, despite our tendency to progress and industrialize, is likely one of the reasons why people adore gardens so much. Even though this need may not be as strong as the desire for modernism, it is nevertheless strong enough to drive us to design gardens, tiny pockets of nature among our activities. We can go back to a moment of comfort, and complete contentment since being in nature is like regressing to a previous evolution of humanity.

This explains why being in gardens is so soothing and tranquil. For this reason, gardens are an ideal setting for tai chi and meditation. You may rapidly escape the bustling world by going to a garden.

I've occasionally wondered if some form of remorse we humans experience motivates us to preserve and care for nature. The realization that collectively rather than individually, we have destroyed so much of nature to get where we are now may be the source of this shame. Building a tiny garden commemorating all the trees we cut down daily is the least we can do.

This, in my opinion, is the main motivation behind why most individuals choose gardening as a hobby.

Don't get me wrong; gardening is unquestionably a healthy habit. Any hobby that enhances your diet promotes environmental conservation and gives physical exercise cannot be bad. Hence, regardless of the underlying psychological reason, everyone should continue to plant. I believe gardening can only help to improve the state of the globe, especially in the USA, which is grappling with obesity and pollution as its two main challenges.

I'm simply a curious gardener; I'm not a psychologist. I frequently stay up all night trying to figure out why I garden. What motivates me to spend a few hours outside with my gardening equipment each day and encourage the modest growth of plants that would otherwise grow independently? Even though I might never know, in this situation, blissful ignorance prevails.