Landscape your garden with your family and pets!
Written by Dr.Laxmi Iyer

When was the last time you got recharged in your garden? Whether it was yesterday or a time aeons ago that you cannot ever remember, just get into plain and easy, recharge mode today. Step into the garden. Saunter around.

Watch the cosmic dance of creation unfold in the cicada's hum, the bee's buzz, the flower's bloom, the moth's flight, the sprouted seeds, the sapling's growth, the lizard's blink, the tree's sway...

Gardens! The seasons are changing. You want to feel the breath of every leaf, the whisper of every breeze and the scent of every flower to soak you up in the mystical experience that we call life.

How are you going to do this efficiently?

Unfortunately, the E word makes its dramatic appearance even when all you want to do in plain and simple English is to take a walk, recharge yourself and weed and landscape your garden.

In a time short world, every drop of a minute that can be saved should be saved. Yes! of course but how are you going to do all this stuff efficiently?

Gardening requires a minimum of at least one to two hours of work on a daily basis. Your walk needs at least one hour and your recharge time should ideally be about 30 to 45 minutes.

Who was that wise man or woman who said, " Many hands make light work ".

There's a way to do all this stuff very efficiently.

Get into action gear. You don't have to blow a whistle or ring out a gong bell the way they do in villages to draw attention but you could use a small microphone if you like to make it interesting.

Call the kids - if you don't have any of your own - put a notice on your garden gate asking for help.

Call every one in your family and all your pets and get moving.

What! pets to help you weed and landscape your garden?

Never heard of it before? Never mind. There's always a first time.

Pets can be invaluable. It's just how your perceive your pets that makes all the difference.

Don't see them as garden pests - busy uprooting your newly sowed dahlia and lily bulbs.

All you have to do is to close your eyes and visualize them as spiritual creatures of light and energy complementing and guiding you as you progress in your life's walk.

Think of them as helpful and alert guides who will direct your attention to all the unusual, interesting and little explored facets of your garden.

Don't think of them as root diggers and plant eaters. It's just how you see them that makes all the difference.

If you are observant and perceptive, your pets will draw your attention to those little explored little rock formations in your backyard, those newly established bug colonies in the hedge on your fence, the newly shedded snake's skin that you nearly missed seeing and those interesting floral patterns of the weeds in the corner that you almost didn't see.