A garden-inspired life at its forefront seeks to integrate and embrace a natural connection. To cultivate joy and bring into practise many a lesson we learn from our beloved gardens. it is an infusion and a blending of a kind of magic into our every days. From tiny additions to impactful practises and everything in between.
A Garden-Inspired Life:
- Introduce houseplants throughout your home over a period of time. The key is to start slowly but surely, avoiding a spree. Instead, intentionally selecting plants for your spaces, whether small or large, and into key rooms like offices or bedrooms.
- Start your mornings by opening a window or two and letting the outdoor air revitalize your environment, even if for a few minutes in the coldest of winter months.
- Consider natural, subtle scents in candles and diffusers that reflect the changing seasons, like lilacs and peonies in the Spring or mums and apples in the Autumn.
- Align the colours of your home with rich, natural tones. From paint to wallpaper, seek to embrace the calming, inspiring and rejuvenating hues that can bring additional beauty to your spaces.
- Opt for natural fibers, textures and materials. Think earthenware place settings, rattan storage baskets, linen napkins, olive wood cutting boards, marble soap dispensers or heavy terracotta pots. Not only can these items create an immediate effect, but they will also be able to stand the test of time more readily than synthetic materials or plastics.
- Create a lulling, peaceful ambiance with a small water feature; something like a tabletop version works well, or if you have pets research pet water fountains, which will help improve both your health and theirs.
- Grow herbs indoors for year-round enjoyment and for all your cooking endeavours.
- Survey your outdoor areas. Determine if any large trees, shrubs or bushes can be pruned or maintained to ensure as much sunlight as possible can pour into your home.
- Add to your libraries with your own gardening journals, resource books or even inspirational magazines. Consider monthly subscriptions or thrifting/vintage shopping for literature about favourite plants, types of gardens or best practises.
Our founder Julie notes, “while trends come and go in the gardening world, there is a great deal of information that can be considered timeless. This means that literature from 50+ years ago can still be considered relevant today, something which is so special.
- Forage, forage, forage. Either for delicious and wild foods or for raw and real decor pieces.
- When you need to focus, relax or even improve your sleep, play brown noise. This is a low-frequency, deep-sounding ambient noise that is reminiscent of a powerful rainfall, striking waterfall or strong winds.
- Decorate your home with botanical art. We are particularly partial to vintage prints with weathered patinas that exude garden-inspired.
- Just like how many plants enter periods of dormancy, prioritize rest when and where you can. If not for a season, then for some kind of holiday. And if that’s no possible, at least allot a certain time of the day for clearing your mind and indulging in that which helps you be at peace.
- Minimize waste and try to pickle, dry, or preserve any extra garden harvests for enjoyment later in the year.
- Allow a handful of plants from your garden go all the way to seed and begin your own heirloom seed collection.
- Align yourself intentionally with the seasons, in Spring focus on a renewal, Summer’s abundance, a gratitude in the Autumn and a stillness in the Winter.
To live intentionally, a garden-inspired life, is to forever grow and change. We hope you can slowly integrate this ideology into your every days. For more reading on all things home, garden and lifestyle, peruse the Wild Blog . If you don’t already, be sure to follow us on Instagram and Pinterest.
