What Garden Moxie Actually Is

Garden Moxie is not a tips-and-hacks gardening brand. It’s an ongoing experiment where the garden is used as a creative practice — a way to learn attention, patience, and care through real, physical work with plants and seasons. Everything I share here comes from lived experience in my own garden: what I plant, what fails, and what inspires me.

My View of Gardening

I think a lot of what feels off about modern life is that everything is noisy and distracting. We’re always rushing, taking in too much information, and expecting instant results. We’ve lost the patience that real skill-building takes. That’s what I love about gardening—it slows you down. It teaches you to pay attention, take your time, and care for something consistently.

Gardening as a creative practice

For me, gardening is a creative practice — similar to drawing or painting. Choosing plants, editing beds, waiting, revising, and starting again all feel like part of the same creative process. A garden is never finished. It’s revised slowly, season by season. It’s changed the way I think about what makes something beautiful, what real effort looks like, and what it means to do good work.

Here’s a more approachable version:

I also work with cyanotypes, pressed flowers, block printing, wreaths, and still life drawings. These aren’t separate hobbies—they’re all part of the same thing. Almost everything I make starts in the garden, with a plant or a season or a moment that catches my eye. The garden is where I work, what inspires me, and where my materials come from.

What I Share

Through Garden Moxie, I share:
– seasonal notes from my garden
– stories of what I plant and why
– reflections on beauty, patience, and restraint
– garden design decisions and revisions
– creative experiments with plants and natural materials
– occasional small publications and artifacts

Most of this is shared through Garden Moxie Field Notes, my curated garden journal.

Garden Moxie is For you If You:

Garden Moxie Might Not be for You If You:

Garden Moxie is a long, slow work in progress — just like the garden itself. If any of this resonates with you, you’re welcome to follow along by signing up for Garden Moxie Field Notes, where I share what I’m learning, making, and revising as the seasons unfold.