Gardens – Our Inner Voices Made Visible
On this Labor Day weekend, I thought it would be appropriate
to feature a neighbor’s garden. It has the usual bushes, specimen trees, a
birdbath, and…the Statue of Liberty!
The weeping tree behind the statue almost looks like a background of
fireworks. What a wonderful reminder of our roots.
It makes me aware that gardens are more than plants – they
are our inner voices made visible. Some gardens are perfectly groomed, each
blade of grass tended, every bush placed in a precise location. Some gardens
are specific, favoring a particular style, an English garden perhaps, or a
peaceful Zen garden, while others run wild, looking unkempt and troubled. And
there are water gardens, vegetable gardens, raised bed gardens, container
gardens, roof gardens, and don’t forget about flowers. Wow, what possibilities.
Our garden is somewhat planned but in many respects is free,
as we tend to favor a fairly natural setting. We often take our cues from the
plants themselves. The privet hedge we planted many years ago does not like the
shade that has developed from our now mature trees and has turned woody. We
probably will replace it, perhaps with the Rose of Sharon bushes that seem to
be establishing themselves near the privets; they don’t seem to mind the shade
at all.
And after seeing the statue in our neighbor’s yard, I think
I would like to have something in our own that would reflect our personal
spirits. Maybe a path of hand-crafted stepping stones meandering down to the
back of the garden. Perhaps a trellis created from the tree limbs that have
fallen from the maple trees for our veggies next spring. The choices are many,
as many as we are in our great country.
Here are some garden ideas to consider:
Gardens through history and around the world…Incredible!
http://home.comcast.net/~lorraine.sherry/gardens/handouts/Examples.pdf
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