Your friend needs a Backyard Breastie.
A gardener, early in chemotherapy treatment, is exhausted from trying to keep up with her garden.
It is hard to ask for help.
I recently helped a Camarillo Gardener refresh her garden. She had spent months worrying about her garden and coming to terms with the need for help.
Her succulents were overgrown
She was worried about general landscapers ruining her carefully tended succulent garden. She had a preference for aeoniums close to the ground was bothered by how tall her succulents had become. She really wasn’t sure who she could ask for help so she had been dissatisfied with and worried about her garden for months.
It is unbelievably hard to ask for help.
Even when people say “How can I help?” asking for help with the gardening somehow feels like a step too far. Gardeners worry that people won’t understand the attachment they have to their gardens or that something special will get damaged or destroyed. I was able to clean-up her garden to here specifications, cutting them shorter and replanting them with a few curves. She mentioned that she didn’t have many darker succulents for variety and I gave her the ones we had from donations.
“Beverly, I just want to say, I am so grateful for your help this morning. You solved a problem that I had been worried about for months.
Bless you for your kindness and help!
💞”
If you know someone in treatment and they have a garden, why not offer to sign them up for a Backyard Breastie?
We often depend on caregivers, friends or coworkers to refer new Breasties. I spoke to one woman who started breast cancer treatment just two weeks before our conversation. Initially she said her garden was too small to be worth the trouble. Twenty minutes later she admitted that just a tiny bit of weeding would really make her day. The small strip of garden leading to her townhome entrance had become weedy and she hoped the neighbors weren’t judging her.
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