GARDENING PAINS: Your Remedy and Prevention .
Are you one of those who turned to gardening during the lockdown or quarantine days of the Covid19 pandemic? Many discovered gardening as a therapy to ease the pain from the loss of loved ones if not the loss of employment or the lack of income opportunities. Some took to it as a way of release from anxiety over uncertainties on what the future holds with the more dangerous variants of Covid-19 virus causing breakthrough infection. Others found joy in realizing that they have a green thumb or can grow a tree in addition to succulents. If you are one of them, you are what we call in the Philippines gardening community as Plantita y Plantito who experienced not only the healthful and emotional benefits of planting and caring for plants but also the pleasurable bonding time that gardening gave to the whole family during the era we describe as plantdemic. Is gardening all pleasure with no pain? Anyone who got hooked on gardening during this period can say that once you start it, you