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="6aea">My trip to the plant nursery</h2><p id="f88e">I went along with my friend to a nursery to pick up the baby plants of flowers that were ready to be sown.</p><p id="d8e0">We had already bought seeds, preserved some from last year, and sowed the seeds. They were showing signs of coming out, but the area of our park was big, and it was not enough for all the beds.</p><p id="f0b8">So here we were looking for plants, and I saw the pure gentleness of the gardeners there.</p><blockquote id="b74a"><p>The gardeners knew that the plants were being sold and were not going to be kept there but still, they fondled the plants with love as if they were transferring some love and some magic wishing them well with gentle new masters.</p></blockquote><p id="41f6">This act of love touched me a lot. I also got big crates of plants and, with equal love, picked up the plants and stroked them with love.</p><p id="3f46">Both of us helped the gardeners to fill the plants in my car. We took care of the plants and brought them with a lot of care.</p><h2 id="cc47">Gentleness in our garden</h2><p id="8ca0">I noticed that when we came back our gardeners were equally gentle when they took the plants and, with a lot of love, planted them in our presence.</p><p id="cae6">Every day we go to the garden without fail and talk to the plants with love and gentleness. We water the plants. The soil is ready with manure, and we tend to them gently and give them water to drink and quench their thirst. Now the little plants are growing.</p><p id="fff5">We want the community to be happy, but we also want them to be gentle with the plants. We explain to the children that plants need gentleness to not step on them and handle them roughly. Some children and their parents even steal the plants. It breaks my heart. Every plant is our child, and we want to see that none are hurt.</p><p id="1ada"><a href="http://It's something that plant lovers have long suspected, but now Australian scientists have found evidence that plants really can feel when we're touching them. Not only that, but different sensations trigger a cascade of physiological and genetic changes, depending on the stimulation the plants are receiving, whether it's a few drops of rain, or a little soft pat, which is probably the coolest thing we've heard all week.">Australian scientists</a> have found evidence that plants really can <i>feel </i>when we’re touching them.</p><p id="3b6f">The type of sensations that they receive trigger physiological and genetic changes, based on how you stimulate the plants and the

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love that they receive with your touch, a few drops of rain, or a little soft pat.</p><p id="7c38">“Although people generally assume plants don’t feel when they are being touched, this shows that they are very sensitive to it,” <a href="http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201605258690/international/plants-are-touch-world-around-them">Olivier Van Aken</a> from the University of Western Australia.</p><h2 id="dd13">The takeaways</h2><ul><li>Be gentle with plants as they are sensitive to the touch of human beings.</li><li>Plants love to receive gentleness, so you should not step on them or treat them harshly.</li><li>Plants are aware of physical contact and respond with positivity and happiness.</li></ul><h2 id="9632">To wrap up</h2><p id="d5e5">I have experienced the feelings of the plants, and every morning I speak to them, smile at them and touch them and try to understand their sensitivity.</p><p id="6925" type="7">“While plants don’t appear to complain when we pinch a flower, step on them or just brush by them while going for a walk, they are fully aware of this contact and are rapidly responding to our treatment of them.” -Oliver Van Aken</p><p id="5049">Thanks to <a href="undefined">Bingz Huang</a> for the prompt on gentleness.</p><div id="1842" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/co-create-our-return-to-gentleness-9aa9d812567a"> <div> <div> <h2>Co-Create Our Return to Gentleness</h2> <div><h3>Let us devote Nov 2022 to #PracticingGentleness</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*RPh1pLc3T1weeiZQ)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="894f">©<a href="https://readmedium.com/dc34b46c1343?source=post_page-----f9fa88a300ef--------------------------------">Dr. Preeti Singh</a>, 2022.</p><p id="ab08"><b>Connect with me <i>Click <a href="https://preetisingh15.medium.com/subscribe">here</a> to subscribe to my stories</i></b>|<b> joinMedium <a href="https://preetisingh15.medium.com/membership">‘<i>with my referral link</i></a></b><a href="https://preetisingh15.medium.com/membership"><i> </i></a>|<a href="https://www.facebook.com/preeti.singh.1690/"><b>Facebook</b></a><b> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/preeti.singh.1690/">Instagram</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-preeti-singh-35a2486a/">Linkedin</a> Email: [email protected]</b></p></article></body>

I Love To Be Gentle With Plants

In response to Practicing Gentleness month

Photo clicked by the author Preeti Singh

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt

My idea of gentleness

Gentleness is a reassuring voice that tells us it’s fine to be who we are, where we are, and just as we are.

It is being soft and giving the other a feeling of happiness when dealing with them.

It is a way of talking to someone according to the need of the moment; a choice for right now.

It is a voice of encouragement, and it y cheers us on as we do so. Helping us to share who we truly are.

Plants need a lot of gentleness. They like soft hands and love. They do not like roughness.

Plants are living beings. They bring us freshness, happiness, and positivity.

There are many different kinds of plants. They are evergreens, flowering plants, shrubs, climbers, and of course, trees too.

I offer my services to the community where I live by keeping the parks neat and sowing plants in the flower season and greens when there are no flowers. I also oversee that the trees are pruned and looking good.

Since winter is approaching, it is the season of marigolds, calendula, ice, Stocks, Dahlia’s Chrysanthemums, Salvia, Sanganaria, and so on.

A real flowering season is about to come.

We got the flower beds ready. Two of us living in this community are looking after the garden. We have three gardeners working under our supervision.

Plants teach you to be gentle.

What do plants do for us?

Plants provide us with food. We can plant fruits and vegetable crops like wheat and rice, and pulses. They are indispensable.
Plants are good for health. They can be made into many different kinds of medicines for our ailments.
Small plants, shrubs, and trees provide shade during hot summers when the sun is bright and has a lot of glare too.
The environment is benefitted from plants and trees as it stops or reduces soil erosion.
To a great extent, plants help clear the air and reduce air pollution.

My trip to the plant nursery

I went along with my friend to a nursery to pick up the baby plants of flowers that were ready to be sown.

We had already bought seeds, preserved some from last year, and sowed the seeds. They were showing signs of coming out, but the area of our park was big, and it was not enough for all the beds.

So here we were looking for plants, and I saw the pure gentleness of the gardeners there.

The gardeners knew that the plants were being sold and were not going to be kept there but still, they fondled the plants with love as if they were transferring some love and some magic wishing them well with gentle new masters.

This act of love touched me a lot. I also got big crates of plants and, with equal love, picked up the plants and stroked them with love.

Both of us helped the gardeners to fill the plants in my car. We took care of the plants and brought them with a lot of care.

Gentleness in our garden

I noticed that when we came back our gardeners were equally gentle when they took the plants and, with a lot of love, planted them in our presence.

Every day we go to the garden without fail and talk to the plants with love and gentleness. We water the plants. The soil is ready with manure, and we tend to them gently and give them water to drink and quench their thirst. Now the little plants are growing.

We want the community to be happy, but we also want them to be gentle with the plants. We explain to the children that plants need gentleness to not step on them and handle them roughly. Some children and their parents even steal the plants. It breaks my heart. Every plant is our child, and we want to see that none are hurt.

Australian scientists have found evidence that plants really can feel when we’re touching them.

The type of sensations that they receive trigger physiological and genetic changes, based on how you stimulate the plants and the love that they receive with your touch, a few drops of rain, or a little soft pat.

“Although people generally assume plants don’t feel when they are being touched, this shows that they are very sensitive to it,” Olivier Van Aken from the University of Western Australia.

The takeaways

Be gentle with plants as they are sensitive to the touch of human beings.
Plants love to receive gentleness, so you should not step on them or treat them harshly.
Plants are aware of physical contact and respond with positivity and happiness.

To wrap up

I have experienced the feelings of the plants, and every morning I speak to them, smile at them and touch them and try to understand their sensitivity.

“While plants don’t appear to complain when we pinch a flower, step on them or just brush by them while going for a walk, they are fully aware of this contact and are rapidly responding to our treatment of them.” -Oliver Van Aken

Thanks to Bingz Huang for the prompt on gentleness.

Co-Create Our Return to Gentleness

Let us devote Nov 2022 to #PracticingGentleness

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