Hello and welcome to Five Minutes in Nature with me Liz Scott.
It's quite a blowy cool June day today.
I've got to say this is much more the weather I'm used to living in England and yeah it's just a little bit grey and cool and everything is still looking incredibly lush in the hedgerows and today well I actually want to today and tomorrow look at two questions.
Which came to me as I was out in the garden today.
I'm very lucky there's a neighbour who's got quite a large garden and she's got a vegetable plot and we share it so we both work on it and we both plant things and grow things.
We started it last year,
We cleared it and this year is the first year we've actually planted vegetables early enough in the season that we can hopefully have a good crop later on.
Last year we were still at this point just about finishing clearing the patch and as I was there today I was planting up different plants.
We had tiny leeks and different things like carrots and parsnips and as I was planting them up they all came with their roots tangled up packed together in a little pot and I was separating them and giving them space in the garden and giving them a bit of space to grow.
It just occurred to me as I was doing this that these little plants were thriving in their own way but they had thrived as much as they could in the pot that they were growing in and now it was time for them to have space to give their roots space to give them space to grow.
So they had got as far as they could do in the pot that they were growing in and it was the perfect place for them to grow from seeds to seedlings but now they were beyond seedlings and they needed their own space.
And what occurred to me as I was doing this is you know this is for me something to reflect on and the question for me is what in my life needs more space needs more space to grow has outgrown the pot in which it was first planted in.
For me this means reflecting on the areas of my life that feel nourishing feel like they're flourishing and need more space in order for the roots to really reach out and grow and find nourishment.
So there's nothing wrong in repotting in fact it's a good thing when you realize that you have grown as far as you can in the circumstances that you're in then all that means is it's time to find a new pot or a new place to grow and in this new place you will be able to reach out and develop even more.
So what in your life is flourishing what feels nourishing what in your life feels as though it's grown as much as it can do in the conditions it's in at the moment and now it needs a bit more time to flourish.
I have found this a very helpful question to reflect on for myself particularly for me around creativity around the area of creativity that I find so nourishing writing and making recordings for me I realize that it takes time it takes time for me to settle to create and I love that time I can't rush it so for me the question is around creating more time space and creative space for me to write and find time for recordings like this but I want you to ask the question for yourself too what in your life needs repotting what in your life needs more space and I've got a follow-up question tomorrow which I want to ask you having been in the garden so hopefully you'll join me tomorrow for the follow-up question but in the meantime just reflect on this what in my life needs repotting what do I give what do I need to give more space to what needs the roots to have space in order to grow what do I need to repot and give more space to in my life
