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Every Gardener Needs a Bucket List

If anyone should have a bucket list, it's a gardener. They live in a rich, lush landscape that is fertile ground for creativity and filled with ideas and things to do. Gardening speaks to the senses. It's visually stimulating and tactile-soothing. Gardens see nature in its stunning glory and feel her presence every time they push their hands into the loam. The world announces itself through chirps, caws, and cackles. The air is heavy with taste and tickles the nose with smell. How could gardeners not have visions of things they want to accomplish?

A bucket list is a great tool to capture those ideas, put them on paper, make them concrete, and stoke them into happening. Just as the gardener tills the soil, so should he or she tend their growing list of wants, desires and delights. Gardeners live in the present, the lush world of the senses. They explore the dirt underneath their fingertips. Why not explore the world? Start your bucket list now. Read on for more ideas and things to stimulate the imagination to grow the perfect bucket list for a gardener.

Blame It On The Movie - The Bucket List Movie

Things to do before you kick the bucket.

The Bucket List - The Movie The Bucket List [Blu-ray]
Bucket lists have been around for a long time or another but the recent popularity can be traced to a movie. The Bucket List captured the attention of many and propelled a new industry of bucket list makers. What does that mean? Well, a bucket list is simply things you want to do before you die. It's a major life to-do list. The idea is to write them down and scratch them off as the items are accomplished. List today, do tomorrow.
Robert Lewis Reid In the Garden

How Does Your Garden Grow? 

How to Make a Bucket List

Be creative. Let your imagination soar

  • 1Follow the lead from the movie. Grab a legal pad or a piece of paper and start listing whatever comes to mind. What would you like to do?
  • 2Your first 10-20 ideas will probably spill out of you. After that, for some people. the ideas suddenly stop. Don't panic. Just sit and wait. Pretty soon the ideas will start flowing again.
  • 3A list of 100 items is often a great way to discover ideas. The list is long enough so that your ideas will flow in waves. You'll have 10-20, then maybe another 10 and then 15, and then 20. Pretty soon you'll have 100. When the silence occurs, don't worry. Round about the time you're ready to give up, those ideas will begin to bubble up.
  • 4Studies have shown that the more specific you are when detailing your items, the better. Be specific. Don't be afraid to flesh the idea out. The more, the better.
  • 5Once you have a list, you might want to find a notebook of some kind to transfer it to. If you want to take it with you and add notes to things as you do them, find one that is spiral bound with hard covers. That way you can easily write no matter where you are.
  • 6Others simply make the list and cross off each item as it's done. That's terrific.
  • 7The big thing to remember is that nothing happens until you act. Write your list. Then pick an item and do it. Pretty soon you'll need to sit down and create a new one.

Garden Designs and Landscaping Ideas

Gardening tips and ideas

Gardens Private & Personal: A Garden Club of America Book - Mick Hales photographerGardens Private & Personal: A Garden Club of America Book
Ever wonder what those busy gardeners were doing in the privacy of their hedges? Well, here's a beautiful book full of photographs displaying what those dedicated gardeners are up to. You'll find ideas everywhere for the patio, entry hall, water garden, and even the hedges.

If you're feeling a bit stumped for ideas for your bucket list, this book should be a great help.
Ideas for your bucket list

Is Your Bucket Full?  

A Giant Wish List for Gardners

Gardening things to do for a gardener's bucket list

The world overflows with things gardeners can do. Here are just a small few to get your creative juices going.
  • 1Plan a trip to Ireland and visit Irish gardens. County Wicklow is known as the "Garden of Ireland."
  • 2Visit Sissinghurst Castle Garden, considered one of the most romantic gardens ever created. Created into various garden rooms, the White Garden is the most famous. Of all the gardens in England, Sissinghurst is considered the most visited.
  • 3Take that landscape gardening class you've been putting off.
  • 4Visit Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in South Carolina.
  • 5Create your own Zen garden.
  • 6Study Japanese gardening techniques.
  • 7Create your own Japanese garden.
  • 8Go on a garden tour of China.
  • 9Write a book containing all your gardening tips.
  • 10Take a garden design class and design your own garden.
  • 11Design a garden for a friend.
  • 12Create your own herbal garden with your favorite herbs.
  • 13Study garden design layout ideas.
  • 14Create that vegetable Victory Garden you've always talked about.
  • 15Plan a trip in April when the tulips are blooming to the Keukenhof, the "kitchen garden," that is often called the Garden of Europe located in The Netherlands. The world's largest garden, it's open March to mid-May.
  • 16Submit an article to your favorite gardening magazine.
  • 17Send your best photos from your garden to your favorite garden magazine.
  • 18Assemble your pictures of gardens and your garden and display and share them.
  • 19Create a container garden on a patio.
  • 20Go on a road trip. Visit the Texas Hill Country in the spring during bluebonnet time.
  • 21Buy that coffee table gardening book full of lush photographs that you've been eyeing for years.
  • 22Meet your favorite master gardener.
  • 23Become a Master Gardener.
  • 24Go on an orchid hunting safari.
  • 25Enter a local gardening show.
  • 26Enter a major gardening show.
  • 27Visit Washington D.C. during the famed Cherry Blossom time and attend the Cherry Blossom Festival.

The Great Gardens of the World

Learn about great garden design and designers

Gardens of the World, famous gardens to visitIn Search of Paradise: Great Gardens of the World
Whet your appetite for the wide variety of gardens that the world has seen. Great book that presents a history of world gardens and great garden designers. Tons of ideas waiting for you to discover and try.

Your Turn - What Do You Want to Do?

What are on your list for a gardener of things to do?

Add something you would do from your own bucket list of ideas. You can also rank the entries. Let's see what is the number one thing to do for gardeners.

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Make a garden pond

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Add Rubberecycle Mulch

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The Perfect Garden Book for the Bucket List Gardener

Fill your bucket list with ideas from 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die

1001 Gardens to Visit1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die
If you want some on target ideas for your gardening bucket list, this is the book for you. It's the perfect complement to a gardening bucket list. The lush photography will delight any horticulturalist or everyday gardener.

What to do with a full bucket of ideas?  

Be Proactive. Do Something Today.

Ideas that you can do now

Is your mind brimming with things to do and images of gardens? Ready to create your own Bucket List for Gardeners? Share one thing that you can do right away.

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add playsafer garden mulch from Rubberecycle

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Grab a legal pad and start writing.

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Not a Gardener? What Kind of Bucket List Would You Do?

Discover the things that you must do before you die

Not everyone is a gardener or has visions of gardening in their head. Maybe you're a booklover or a museum-goer. Or maybe you just want to list 100 Things to Do Before You Die and not be confined by any topic. Share your passion. What type of bucket list would you create?

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100 Amusement Parks to Visit

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What do you think about bucket lists? Goofy idea?

Bucket lists help make things happen

Do you like the idea of making a bucket list? Would you do it?

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Yes. I think they help make things happen.

claudine says:

I just realized that I used to make a bucket list every year when I did my resolutions. Interesting.It absolutely did help me to accomplish things. I haven't done it in the last 5 or 6 years though.

MareeT says:

Love the Bucket List for Gardeners! Very nice Lens!

No. They're just another mental toy.

BarbRad says:

I probably wouldn't. I'm the spontaneous type.

prosperity66 says:

I'd like to say that they're helpful but being who I am, they're just another toy - well, lost toy in the hundreds of other lists I built and lost ;)

 

More Bucket List Ideas

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More Ideas to Fill Your Bucket List

500 Ideas you might want to add to your growing list of things to do

Things to do before you die500 Things to Do Before You Kick the Bucket
Need help getting ideas for your bucket list? Are you stumped about what to put on your bucket list? Don't know where to start? This is a great book to get the ideas flowing. You might even create a pretty full bucket list in the process of reading and noting down the things that are listed for you to do before you die. Ever climbed a tree? What about wanting to adopt a pet from a shelter? You might be surprised at the number of items listed that appeal to you.

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  • Image credits: The gardener statue by Robert Lewis Reid [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsAll product images are sourced from Amazon.com and linked to them. The two bucket photos are in the public domain and sourced and linked to Wikimedia Commons.

    • BarbRad Jun 15, 2011 @ 4:45 am | delete
      My wish list is something that would get rid of all the ground squirrels fro good so I'm not wasting my time working in the garden, LOL.
    • prosperity66 Jun 10, 2011 @ 5:31 pm | delete
      I'm a gardener but right now, I couldn't work in my garden - this makes me sad as I love gardening. Actually, I don't really need lists but I often build bucket lists because I always forget the things I wanna do as well as those I MUST do... but since I also lose the lists, they're just some kind of fun, allowing me to imagine I can do this and that, lol.
    • MsSnow4a Jun 10, 2011 @ 3:27 pm | delete
      I know I need a bucket list or maybe just a bucket :)
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