Everything that’s blooming down in the grass of our backyard today.
To see what other gardeners have put in a vase, please visit Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
Tag: weeds
Our garden in July
How to convey the very, very discreet charm of our garden of rough grass and weeds?
I often think of this other bit of German ground painted by Albrecht Dürer.
Yesterday, a repairman came over to fix the window/door behind my desk chair. It turned out to be fine; I just did not know how to operate it properly. (German windows are wonderful, but this one is a bit over-engineered.) He pushed the handle and pulled the frame and said, “And now you can go out into the beautiful . . . looks out, slight pause. . . garden.”
You can read about the beginning of my “garden without (much) gardening” here.
The middle of the month brings Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day (the 15th) and Foliage Follow Up (the 16th). Please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens and Pam at Digging to see what’s blooming and leafing out in July.
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I grow in places
others can’t,where wind is high
and water scant. . . .I make my humble,
bladed bed.And where there’s level ground,
I spread.— Joyce Sidman, from “Grass“
Vintage landscape: New Roads, La.
“House, small, hipped roof, New Roads vic., Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana,” 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
On some days, this is my dream garden.
Just cut a path through the gate, up to the front steps . . .
and plant a fig tree at the end of the porch.
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
— Gerard Manley Hopkins, from “Inversnaid“
enclos*ure 