"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration
of the five senses."
- Hanna
Rion
Clivia of the shadows
March 21, 2007
"When the world wearies and society ceases
to satisfy, there is always the garden."
- Minnie Aumonier
Yellow Clivia
March 29, 2006
Photo by BT
The yellow clivia blooms in gold,
Mirroring the sunbeams coming
to the earth.
It is March, a time of beauty
In the garden.
---BT
March 29, 2006
"Flowers...are a proud assertion that a ray
of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clivia
Photo by T. Hibben
January, 2005
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to
humanity."
-----Joseph Addison
The wonderful colors of the sun are
reflected in the Clivia bloom.
"I am following Nature without being able
to grasp her........I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
----------Claude Monet
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with
the beauty of flowers---and never succeeding."
-----Marc Chagall
