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The Magnificent Garden—A Slice of Heaven

Gardening is an experience of the senses. No one is talking, drink it in. The site will tell us what to do if we listen. Realize its potential and appreciate the bounty of nature. A human being can create an experience out of nature. Let in the feeling of wildness and accept it. We hear […]

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A Spring Garden Poem About Growing Candy

Candy probably isn’t what comes to mind when you think about a Spring garden poem. Daffodils? Tulips? Clover? Sure. But candy? Not so much. For that matter, what does candy even have to do with a garden? Well, if you have ever had the luxury of picking fresh peas and eating them straight out of […]

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A Bumblebee Considers its Work

Visiting gardens this morning, like the neighborhood cleric making parish calls, I chat with peonies, poppies and fragrant heliotrope, and hope I carry contagions of helpfulness to other flowers. As I continue my quiet talk I’m weighted with gifts, gifts like cherished gold which I share along my route, thankful that the proverbial pleasant words […]

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When a Gardener’s Soil Fails Her

Just like your home is ideally a place to be comfortable and safe, so is a gardener’s soil a place for her plants to grow and thrive. A gardener’s soil provides her plants with the moisture and nutrition they need to live a happy life. In that soil is an ecosystem where earthworms and beetles […]

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What Do I See?

  Above clusters of heart-shaped leaves sprouting white scalloped-edged bells, climbing a bending stalk, a bumblebee bizzes into a top fresh blossom. Oh, Bee, what do you see? About the Author: Susan Griffith, a former librarian and college professor, lives, writes, reads and grows flowers in the middle of Michigan’s lower peninsula. She reads children’s […]

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Community Garden

Javier’s class is digging dirt in the community garden by P.S. 102 in the Bronx And Javier says: ”why am I digging dirt, I haven’t done anything wrong?’ He knows that men from Leland Ave., from the barrio, maybe from the block go to jail go to prison He knows that men from the block […]

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A Spring Gardening Poem

There are many things I love about Spring. The smell in the air as the earth unthaws and the soil emerges again. The sound of birds returning home. The sight of forests of brown sticks becoming engulfed by green buds and then leaves. The eager anticipation of starting a garden anew, and wondering what may […]

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4 Moving Poems About Gardens and Love

Throughout history, many famous poets have drawn inspiration from nature to write poems about gardens and love. One of the most well-known examples is William Shakespeare, whose sonnets often used garden imagery to explore themes of love, beauty, and the passing of time. In Sonnet 18, he famously compares his beloved to a summer’s day, […]

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5 Pocket-Sized Short Garden Poems

There’s something magical about a well-crafted short poem that can transport you instantly to a vibrant garden, awaken your senses, and stir your soul. As an avid flower gardener, I’ve always found that brief verses and mini poems about much grander poems can really be fun to create, write down, and tuck in your pocket […]

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Bonsai

That Japanese maple (purchased 1991, K-Mart, gallon-can, $2.57) has been cultivated into a lissome, not quite exquisite bonsai. But it thrives in miniature, mimicking the seasons flawlessly: like the cool, reflective waters of a hushed and silent pond. Trimmed, fertilized, repotted at (I’ll admit) less-than-ideal intervals this demur maple’s foliage flushes scarlet in November, each […]

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