A garden at golden hour: an enormous sun resting on a green horizon, mirrored in a still reflecting pool, with two chairs facing each other on the lawn between cypress and olive trees.

Harmony on the horizon.

Enduring, healthy relationships are grown on purpose. This is where they are tended.

Time well spent, by Dr. Adeyinka Laiyemo

Time well spent

I want to love youEvery second of the minute

I want to be in your armsEvery minute of the hour

I want to be holding your handsEvery hour of the day

I want to be in your presenceEvery week of the month

I want to be with youEvery month of the year

I want to sit with youEvery year of the decade

I want to stand with youEvery decade of the century

I want to love youFor my entire lifetime

I want you in my lifeFor ever and ever

I love you.

A garden of bliss for the people

Dr. Adeyinka Laiyemo, founder of Blissful Gardenz, in a portrait photograph.

A word from the gardener

More than three decades of medicine taught me where healing really begins: at home.

Dr. Adeyinka Laiyemo is a physician, an author, and for over two decades a quiet advocate for family harmony. Blissful Gardenz is his life’s work made into a place: to promote enduring healthy relationships.

Five pillars. One garden.

Every conversation, film, and guide tends one of five kinds of well-being.

  1. I · Physical

    Rest, health, and the energy to show up for each other.

  2. II · Social

    Friendships, family ties, and a community that holds you both.

  3. III · Financial

    Money conversations held early, honestly, and without blame.

  4. IV · Mental

    Clarity, patience, and room for two different inner worlds.

  5. V · Emotional

    Feeling safe enough to be fully known, and fully welcome.

Three friends. Their marriages. Honest conversations. Important life lessons.

The Three Guys Talking trilogy, written by Dr. Laiyemo and published under the Blissful Gardenz name.

Book one cover: three wicker chairs behind a glass table where two neckties rest with small flowers, by an overcast sea.

Book 1

My Wife or My Children's Mother?

2017 · 7 hrs 24 min listen

Book two cover: a blue pair and a pink pair of boxing gloves around a heap of mingled shoes, framed on a blush ground.

Book 2

When Ladies Fight Back

2019 · 6 hrs 21 min listen

Book three cover: a framed view of Niagara Falls above a wooden boardwalk receding through tall grass.

Book 3

The Romantic Tragedy

2020 · 5 hrs 31 min listen

Watch & Listen

The first season of garden films is in production. Here is what is coming.

Tall backlit grasses glowing before an enormous golden-hour sun.

Stay for the golden hour.

The garden after six

The Inner Garden

A membership two people share.

The full film library, guides and workbooks, a live gathering every month, and the family membership: up to four people, each with their own login, because this garden is for all of you.

The Quiet Season

Inside the Inner Garden

The Repair Conversation

Inside the Inner Garden

Individual$5/mo
Family$10/mo
Individual or family, up to four

From the Journal

Letters and essays on tending a life together.

All writing

The Garden opens soon.

Founding members enter first: the library, the gatherings, and a seat for the person you love.

One letter a month, no noise. Leave whenever you like.