Lay down your little heads
and sleep
Permit the sun to warm your thoughts
though you cannot feel her caress
beneath the cold earth
Know that while you dream
the seasons turn
the wind shifts
and there will be life for you
once again
Flowers, herbs, vegatables and bushes
remember me
while you sleep
your winter's sleep...
rainI will say my garden began as i envisioned it but quickly became something out of a 50's horror flick. Ironic that the Day of the Triffids is one of my all time favorite films; my garden bit and pinched and grew and then grew testy. For a while my roses failed and my sunflowers went bonkers. I had these gladiolas to die for and then my tomatoes began to rot on the vine. I had vases of flowers briefly and then I realized the bloomers were not in a mood to bloom.
I planted two types of ground cover and yet again one type went crazy. My strawberry bush was fine and productive for weeks then suddenly upon a return from out of town I found it wilted and failing.
My Cypress Vines didn't let me down though- they are worthy of a photograph of which I will post when I return from this week's trip to Latrobe. I am not sure what went wrong this year, but I suspect that my being away so much led to the complete disarray and mussy-chaotic state of the growth out there.
/
I did have fun planting the willow tree and sinking jasmine and lavender out there. I have relocated many plants in the past few weeks in my spare time and plan a different layout for next year.
And thus the garden...
grows...
Stormy day drifted in; snapped the stalks of my sunflowers.
Cindy, you see, felt that Dennis let up on her heels; she wanted him
to persue her charms with a gust! And yet he swirled near the shore
while she went, until she went into my garden.
Then with a whoof she whizzed right away!
My lilies have begun to bloom. (!)
This is a great joy for me. The lilies in this photo were actually transplanted from my mother's garden to my garden; 300 miles serperate the two!
That little sprout of violas germinated all on it's own.
The cypress vine, which you can't yet see, has just begun to curl around the decorative grate propped behind this old stone tub...
People bring me gifts of plastic and ceramic Bun Buns to enhance the visual in my garden.
Also I put in some petrified wood from our trip through the West in 2003.
"New Fruit in Red and Orange" Photo by Elizabeth Robinson, June 17 2005
The first fruit of the year...
