How does your garden grow?

My garden is bursting forth with spring right now. This photo was taken a few weeks ago, the chard and kale are both growing so fast, faster than I can eat it, it’s now at least five times bigger than in this photo. My antique roses are putting off enthusiastic, new growth and new little rose buds open every day. All the herb and Texas native cuttings I took last fall are now doubling, tripling, quadrupling in size seemingly over night. I love seeing how things grow… How some plants are tender and timid and respond to slow, gentle encouragement, how they stay small and safe until they firmly root themselves down into the nurturing darkness of the earth, and only when they’ve fully tested the ground and sunk down deep into its mystery do they unfold into their full glory… How some have a sense of urgency, daring to reach up and out into the great unknown, trusting they will be met with the right amount of sun, water, space, support. No hesitation, no uncertainty, no confusion, no insecurity. A perpetually blooming declaration of Here Am I, Behold My Beauty!!… How some are neither hesitant nor urgent, how they continue the quiet, daily progress of becoming themselves, simultaneously rooting down and reaching up and out with balance, grace, and steady-ease. As I tend to my garden, I tend to myself, feeling where my rootedness still feels incomplete, insecure, unsafe… where I have a sense of urgency and daring, where I’ve reached out too far, too soon without the proper support, where I am balanced, or not, where I am steady and at ease in myself, where I bloom into my own becoming, in awe as I behold my own beauty. Tell me, how does your garden grow?