So what do we garden for? Not all flowers are made by photosynthesis. See here the lovely dessert plates made up a tea party.

The fruit of the fields and the work of human hands combined to make them. Fresh daffodils (yes, they did start blooming like crazy this week) helped warm up a cold church basement. We garden because everything we do, from composting to weeding to planting to harvesting, takes us one step closer to a result that is larger and more perfect than we can even imagine.

Flowers, though we grow them, are not truly grown by our hands but by their own life force. We are just their stewards, their caregivers, their nurturers. We are paid in beauty, and in the currency of caring, which lets us go on to plant those same seeds in new ground--like raising money for a community need through creating beauty for others. We garden because we are the ones who want to grow.