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Colorcade ® Red Cherry

February 9, 2007

Photo by BT

 

 

 

 

 

Barbe Bleau in full morning sun

February 3, 2007

 

 

Barbe, the glow of the

Sun on your petals

Is pristine.

You are a beauty,

In the garden

That alway renews my love

And appreciation of your

Color and form.

 

--BT

February 3, 2007

"A garden always gives back more than it receives."

----Mara Beamish

"A garden always gives back more than it receives."

----Mara Beamish"A garden always gives back more than it receives."

----Mara Beamis

Red Blizzard

February 9, 2007

 

 

"In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends."

 

----Kozuko Okakura

 

 

Mandarin

February 9, 2007

 

 

 

"There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again."

-----Elizabeth Lawrence

 

 

 

 

White Blizzard

February 9, 2007

 

 

 

 

"When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves."   

- Ken Druse

 

 

Lavender Blizzard

February 3, 2007

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultI do not understand how anyone can live
without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
ural ma"What a pity flowers can utter no sound! A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle, - oh,what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!"

---- Henry Ward Beechera glorious future. This hope

     - Marina Schinz

 

 

Salmon Queen

February 3, 2007

 

 

"It is the sweet, simple things of life, which are the real ones after all."

---Laura Ingalls Wilderous future. This hope

To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.
     - Marina Schinz
To create a garden is to search for a better world. In our effort to improve on nature, we are guided by a vision of paradise. Whether the result is a horticultural masterpiece or only a modest vegetable patch, it is based on the expectation of a glorious future. This hope for the future is at the heart of all gardening.
     - Marina Schinz

Red Blizzard

February 3, 2007

 

 

 

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."

 

----John Ruskin

 

 

Mandarin

February 3, 2007

 

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

by Hellen Keller

 

 

Arctic Red in bright morning sun

 

"Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope............."

 

----Richard Jefferies, The Pageant of Summer, June 1883

 

 

 

 

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