{"id":13325,"date":"2025-07-10T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/the-art-of-doing-nothing-and-why-your-garden-should-learn-it-too\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:08:10","slug":"the-art-of-doing-nothing-and-why-your-garden-should-learn-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/the-art-of-doing-nothing-and-why-your-garden-should-learn-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of doing nothing (and why your garden should learn it too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think my garden has more ambition than I do. While I sit in a plastic chair with a book, trying to pretend I\u2019m doing nothing, the weeds are multiplying, the grapevines are making a run for the neighbours, and the lemon tree clearly has no grasp of the word \u201cpruning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">And yet \u2014 or perhaps because of it \u2014 this chaos is my favourite place. If there\u2019s one thing I relearn every July, it\u2019s this: doing nothing is an art, and nowhere more so than in the garden. <\/p>\n<h4>Give the garden a break, too<\/h4>\n<p>We ask a lot of our outdoor spaces: neat, stylish, low-maintenance and <em>Instagram-worthy<\/em>. So we plan borders, hoe the paths, scrub the tiles and string up fairy lights with a vaguely Calvinist sense of guilt. <\/p>\n<p>But honestly? July was never meant for that. In Andalusia, it\u2019s the month of <i>tranquilo<\/i>. And who\u2019s to say that doesn\u2019t apply to your garden too? Why force your plants to perform when you\u2019re barely operating at half power yourself?    <\/p>\n<h4>Plants that can fend for themselves are the best kind<\/h4>\n<p>There\u2019s a quiet wisdom in lavender that reorganises itself, in rosemary that refuses to die, and in a cactus that pays you no attention yet grows anyway. You don\u2019t need to be a garden designer to create atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>Shady spots beneath trees, winding paths with no clear logic, a chair that seems to have always been there \u2014 that\u2019s the essence of the<span class=\"s1\"> art of doing nothing in the garden<\/span>. It starts with trust. In the process. In the dryness. In the simple fact that some things become beautiful all by themselves.    <\/p>\n<h4>Sweat not required for atmosphere<\/h4>\n<p>A good terrace doesn\u2019t require hard work, just strategic thinking: place chairs where the breeze comes through, throw an old rug under the table (softens everything), and stick to planters you can safely ignore for a week.<\/p>\n<p>If your garden demands constant attention, the problem might not be the climate \u2014 but your expectations. Look at the locals: no one\u2019s sprinting around with a leaf blower in August. They sit. They stay quiet. They breathe.    <\/p>\n<h4>Doing nothing is also a choice<\/h4>\n<p>Maybe that\u2019s why I feel increasingly in sync with my garden during summer. We both do less. We slow down. We\u2019re not finished, not perfect, not <em>Pinterest<\/em>-worthy. But we\u2019re alive.    <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who\u2019s read my ramblings before knows I\u2019ve often reflected on what a garden doesn\u2019t need to be \u2014 from <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/green-with-an-edge-garden-ideas-for-the-modern-villa\/\">ideas for the modern villa<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/ditch-the-tiles-and-artificial-grass-why-a-green-outdoor-space-is-smarter-and-more-beautiful\/\">saying goodbye to tiles and fake grass<\/a>. Even my <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/your-own-vegetable-garden-on-the-balcony-or-terrace-smart-gardening-in-the-spanish-climate\/\">balcony vegetable patch<\/a> was approached with far too much ambition once. But the lesson sticks: doing less is usually better. Outdoors included. And isn\u2019t that, in the end, the whole point of being outside?    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I think my garden has more ambition than I do. 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Geboren in Sevilla als zoon van een Andalusische moeder en een Britse vader, groeide ik op met een unieke mix van flamenco en afternoon tea. Hoewel ik diep geworteld ben in de Spaanse cultuur, vind je bij mij ook die Britse scherpte en een flinke dosis zelfspot. Inmiddels heb ik mijn plek gevonden aan de Costa del Sol, waar ik als schrijver mijn passies voor natuur, duurzaamheid, en het goede leven kan combineren. Mijn missie? Jou laten zien hoe je je Casa y Vida \u2013 je huis en leven \u2013 kunt omarmen op een manier die niet alleen comfortabel, maar ook inspirerend is. Mijn stijl? Direct, met een knipoog, en altijd een beetje rebels. Want eerlijk is eerlijk: een betegelde tuin met kunstgras voelt voor mij net zo levenloos als een kopje thee zonder melk. 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Pak een glas vino tinto, leun achterover, en bienvenido in mijn wereld!","url":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/author\/lucas\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13325\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoundofthecosta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}