"People from a planet without
flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to
have such things about us."
---Iris Murdoch
July 24, 2007
The flowers are opening.
"Flowers are happy things."
---P. G. Wodehouse
Agapanthus
July 24, 2007
"Flowers are restful to
look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."
----Sigmund Freud
The mauve of the agapanthus..........a
beautiful blending of color and flowers
June 27, 2007
Agapanthus
All through the streets and yards
of the village,
The Agapanthus spreads it glorious
hues of mauve,
Sending into the air its stalks
of beauty for us
All to savor and relish and appreciate.
---BT
"He who plants a garden
plants happiness."
---Chinese Proverb
Agapanthus
May 18, 2007
"Flowers are sunshine, food
and medicine to the soul."
- Luther Burbank
Agapanthus
May 18, 2007
"For, lo! the winter is
past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth..................."
---The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12
Agapanthus
July 7, 2006
"When gardeners garden,
it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves."
----Ken Druse
Agapanthus
June 15, 2007