"I believe that gardens themselves are very healing. To be surrounded by the exquisite beauty of nature is to experience a healing of the soul. "

- author unknown

 

White Blizzard

July 4, 2007

 

"The garden is the poor man's apothecary."

----German Proverb

 

 

Peppermint Candy

July 4, 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

 

 

Picasso ivy geranium

July 4, 2007

"There was the smell of all the flowers at once, as if the earth had been unconscious all day and were now waking."

---Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958

 

 

Red Velvet

July 5, 2007

 

 

 

"If you would be happy all your life--plant a garden."

----Chinese Proverb

 

 

Royal Pink

July 5, 2007

 

 

"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."

 

-----Albert Einstein

 

Arctic Red ivy geranium

July 2, 2007

 

 

 

"You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful."

----Montagu Don, The Sensuous Garden 1997

 

 

Regal Camelot in back garden, center of photo

July 2, 2007

 

Blooming flowers

 

residents of this world, too

 

for a short time.

 

----Issa

 

 

 

 

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