The Garden in Bloom
by Ann Lovejoy
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In her first new collection of essays since "The Border in Bloom", Ann Lovejoy offers informed and entertaining ideas about the art, philosophy, work, and pleasure of gardening. "The Garden in Bloom" is a return to what makes Lovejoy the most popular gardening writer in the Pacific Northwest.Tags
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I love this book...but, of course, I love everything that Ann Lovejoy has penned. It might be a tad dated in spots, but for the most part, for the vast majority, this book is chock full of gardening wisdom and life wisdom for gardeners in all areas and all walks of life. A must read!
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- Like most gardeners, I'm a firm believer in celebration.....
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- Here, though outwardly quiet, winter is actually a time of enormous activity. If little is visible on the surface, a great deal in going on underground. Roots are lengthening. Pale shoots are inching upward ... (show all)through frozen soil, forcing their way up toward light and air. Embryo flower are forming, their cramped folds tucked inside tightly compressed buds.
This implicit burgeoning has a powerful symbolic resonance because it echoes our own pattern of change. We, too, go through such periods.....That very fullness creates a pressure that can be experienced as pain. Indeed, in medical terms pain is pressure.......
Experience is slowly pushing wisdom towards birth......
I have no idea how a plant perceives winter, but for people there is comfort in recognizing these times of slow, sometimes painful growth for what they are.......
Because our culture prizes the obvious, we experience our inner winter as empty waiting, frustrating and without fulfillment.
When we can calm down and cooperate, breathing into the stillness, we can listen and learn a lot faster. Blooming spring can't come until solemn winter has prepared the way.
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