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Gary Stewart

I'm not an expert in gardening or in life, but I'm fascinated by how the two are connected.

🌱 The Garden Doesn't Wait to Feel Ready

May 9, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 The Garden Doesn't Wait to Feel Ready

What Mental Health Awareness Week taught me about doing the one small thing in front of you

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 When the Ground Forgets How to Drink

May 1, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 When the Ground Forgets How to Drink

Six weeks without rain, and the garden is teaching me something I didn't ask to learn

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Ground Beneath Us

Apr 26, 2026

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5 min read

🌱 The Ground Beneath Us

On the quiet courage of clearing out, starting over, and trusting the bare earth

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 When April Can't Make Up Its Mind

Apr 18, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 When April Can't Make Up Its Mind

On reading an unreliable sky, and what the garden asks of us when the season refuses to settle.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Week the Blossom Fell

Apr 10, 2026

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8 min read

🌱 The Week the Blossom Fell

On fleeting beauty, reluctant presence, and what my daughter noticed first

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Easter Edition

Apr 5, 2026

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9 min read

🌱 The Easter Edition

Moving from the chaos of the egg hunt to the quiet of the flowerbed.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Rhythm of the Seed

Mar 23, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 The Rhythm of the Seed

What a stretched seedling teaches us about our own foundations.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 Embrace the Grey Wait

Mar 14, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 Embrace the Grey Wait

We’re leaning into the "wait" today.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 Bare Root Roses

Mar 1, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 Bare Root Roses

Deep Dive

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 Embrace Gardening: The Grace of the Cull

Feb 21, 2026

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5 min read

🌱 Embrace Gardening: The Grace of the Cull

Why "too much of a good thing" leads to stagnation.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Strength of the Stretch

Feb 7, 2026

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5 min read

🌱 The Strength of the Stretch

The importance of "Mechanical Stress" in building character.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Quiet Stirring

Feb 1, 2026

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6 min read

🌱 The Quiet Stirring

To the untrained eye, the garden is asleep. But you and I know better.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Quiet Work of Winter

Jan 25, 2026

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7 min read

🌱 The Quiet Work of Winter

That tiny snowdrop taught me that patience isn't a passive act of waiting around; it is an active state of trust.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 Finding Light in the Darkest Months

Jan 19, 2026

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8 min read

🌱 Finding Light in the Darkest Months

Learning to bloom before the sun returns.

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Wealth in Winter’s Silence

Jan 10, 2026

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9 min read

🌱 The Wealth in Winter’s Silence

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart
🌱 The Winter Vision

Jan 3, 2026

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11 min read

🌱 The Winter Vision

Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart

"The seeds that concern me most are not the ones that haven't germinated yet. They are the ones I stopped paying attention to — assuming they would just get on with it."— Gary Stewart


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