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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on June 7, 2020 | 4 comments

We might think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it’s our garden that is really nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Unknown

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on May 25, 2020 | 12 comments

Has a bee ever landed on you, and instead of getting scared, you appreciate the possibility that you got confused for a flower? -Unknown

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Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers. -Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway. -Mary Kay Ash

It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. -Mary O’Connor

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on May 21, 2020 | 6 comments

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

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“The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(…) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.”
― Robertson Davies, What’s Bred in the Bone

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this. –Stevie Smith

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Tagged allium, Allysum, Creeping Jenny, Creeping Phlox, Creeping Zinnia, floral, flower garden, Geum, John Harrigan, LCsCottage, lilac, maple, miniature iris, peony, Petunia, Robertson Davies, Stevie Smith