Sarah's Garden: July 2008

30 July 2008

Garden at July's End

Garden at July's End

Compare the back garden this year to last year....quite an improvement don't you think? It was a bit drab last year!

22 July 2008

note to self

Possible additions to beds in Fall/Spring:
Crocosmia (lucifer?) brilliant red, nice foliage, 4-5' tall
Verbena bonariensis - purple, self-seeding annual, 6-7' tall
Actaea simplex (brunette) possibly in corner of back LH
Make the back RH bed a campanula bed! different varieties/bloom times

When we fill in the back and build the fence...remember the lovely bench/pergola at Trethewey house, with hydrangeas and blueberries planted in with it.

18 July 2008

Mid-July Garden-08

Early June garden-08

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In An Old Town Garden

Shut from the clamor of the street

By an old wall with lichen grown,

It holds apart from jar and fret

A peace and beauty all its own.

The freshness of the springtime rains

And dews of morning linger here;

It holds the glow of summer noons

And ripest twilights of the year.

Above its bloom the evening stars

Look down at closing of the day,

And in its sweet and shady walks

Winds spent with roaming love to stray,

Upgathering to themselves the breath

Of wide-blown roses white and red,

The spice of musk and lavender

Along its winding alleys shed.

Outside are shadeless, troubled streets

And souls that quest for gold and gain,

Lips that have long forgot to smile

And hearts that burn and ache with pain.

But here is all the sweet of dreams,

The grace of prayer, the boon of rest,

The spirit of old songs and loves

Dwells in this garden blossom-blest.

Here would I linger for a space,

And walk herein with memory;

The world will pass me as it may

And hope will minister to me.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery