Your Flower Power is…Echinacea!
You're nurturing, consistent, and ready to support the whole community
What It Means
When it comes to being part of a group you want to make sure everyone has a moment to shine. That their unique contribution is recognized and appreciated. This is how you believe a group works at its best.
Why It's Important
Your Echinacea Flower Power is especially useful at making sure that great ideas from everyone make it to the table. Inclusion and recognition are important to you and you spend a lot of energy making sure the group is in concert with each other.
Watch The Weeds
The weed in the garden for you is that you can dislike change and conflict. This might make you feel drained or unsure if this group is for you. Give any new group a chance to find their groove before you make a decision.
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
Can you imagine how you will feel walking through a garden you helped bring to life, a garden that is full of life because of you?
Are you tired of feeling worried about the world your kids are growing up in, but you don’t know where to start?
The key is to get started on being part of the solution.
Like a pinwheel takes a small action from nature, a breeze, to get moving, so is the case with you starting a garden.
Small actions build upon each other. Small actions by many people turn a breeze into a wind, a storm, a change, a tipping point.
It’s easier than you think and no you don’t have a brown thumb!
To create a garden, you need to plant one seed at a time, celebrate each success, learn from every mistake, and teach one other person to grow it forward. Who do you know who would be an easy place to start?
Don’t know anyone yet? Start taking action in your yard
Start in your yard. Front or back doesn’t matter. Just start growing flowers and sharing. The connection to the earth and your garden will give you the boost you need to keep going!
Ready to Get Started?
Join The Grow it Forward Garden Club!
Joining The Grow it Forward Club, a supportive online community will give you extra resources and support to make your efforts even more successful.
The Grow it Forward Club is a supportive Facebook group for people who want to adopt a lifestyle that creates change and models good citizenship through the positive effects of gardening. You will get exclusive content and the ability to ask me and others questions.
See you there!
"Who Am I to Tell You How to Create a Community Garden...
Hi! I'm Anne, founder, and gardener at Pinwheel Cottage.
I am on a mission to plant thousands of gardens that build community and make it possible to share the bounty from the garden.
I have been gardening since I was tiny. While my dad did most of the work to get that pile of tomatoes, and my mom did the work to can them, I grew up in the garden.
Now at 49, I am finishing my Master Gardener certification, work at a flower farm part-time, and once turned my entire front yard into a cut flower garden to help me meet my new neighbors during the pandemic. That covers the gardening chops.
My community building and gathering skills come from a degree in public relations with a focus on event planning as well as 15 years as a manager at Trader Joe’s.