Gardening is a great hobby!  What kind of flowers are you planting?
bleeding hearts and petunias right now!
Are those both spreading types of flowers?  I bet your garden smells amazing once all the blooms are out.  Do you do any veggie gardening as well?
Both will spread.  The bleeding hearts should grow back next year.  I am planning to plant just a few veggies in pots on my deck.  Last year the rabbits ate everything we planted.
Oh no!  Rabbits are so cute but they can be terrors in the garden.  I hear rabbits won't touch Yikka, but who eats Yukka?! lol  When did you first become interested in plants and nature?
Not until I was an adult.  My son is very interested in plants, so it is something we can do together.
That sounds so lovely and wholesome!  How old is your son?  Are there any books you would recommend to someone who was interested but a complete beginner?
He is ten years old.  I don't know any specific books, but we went to the library and got a lot of different books from the non-fiction section and went through them.  We also look on the Internet and bother my friend who is a landscape architect.
What a great age to learn, I'm sure he loves it.  I've read that gardening is a very healing hobby; I bet exposing your son to a landscape architect is really broadening his view of the world and his future possibilities!  Do you find gardening to be therapeutic?
I do find it to be therapeutic.  I love to be outside.  It makes the time go by so quickly and I love to see what I have planted grow later!