“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”
~Abram L. Urban
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
~Henry David Thoreau, “Chesuncook,” The Maine Woods, 1848
Do you remember nature, or a garden as a part of your childhood? What memories come to you when you think of this?
Quotes taken from QuoteGarden.
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We never had gardens at our house, probably a time thing. My grandfather always had a garden, but only grew tomatoes. Hundreds of tomatoes. We had a grape arbor and one year it produced quite a crop and Mama made jelly. She never tried it again. One year when I was 10 or so I dug a little 2 x 4 foot square and planted zinnias. I knew nothing about annuals and perennials, and was terribly disappointed when they didn’t come up the next year. I just thought I’d done something wrong. So I was 37 before I started gardening for real.
Better late than never. Right?! Some people don’t start gardening until they retire. There really is such a lot to learn. When working with nature there is a lot of uncertainty involved. Despite many failures in 2008 I resolved to keep moving forward with my gardening. I’m glad to hear that you are on the journey too Janet
I loved spending time in my own backyard and in my grandpa’s garden – he always grew lots of tomatoes (he was Italian, after all!) in raised beds, and I remember lying under the tomato plants with his dog, Lady, just enjoying the smell of the plants and the dirt, and feeling the filtered sunlight on my face.
Thanks for this post! I hadn’t thought about my grandpa’s garden for a long while