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Category: Gardens

  • A Little Faery Music

      Clap your hands if you believe in faeries…           Ladew Gardens meets Peter Pan.  

  • Sorrows and Joys or Woof

      According to Webster: woof: the threads interlacing at right angles with the warp in a woven fabric.   When we are young, we think we should chase sadness away, banish it as though it were something dirty and undesirable, only to have it pop up again and again and again. As we age, we…

  • An old joke with photos!

      How do you catch a unique rabbit?     You 'neak up on him.   How do you catch a tame rabbit?     Tame way.        

  • Cherished Friends

        The different elements of this flower seem not to belong together. Yet one without the other might not be as beautiful, might in fact appear ordinary.   It's good to have friends like that, who might not make you look better, necessarily, but who help you to feel better, and more importantly, to…

  • Are We Dead Yet? or What Are You Waiting For?

        Now here's a gruesome thought… (bear with me) Since we – each and every one of us – (except those magicians among us) are going to die one day, then we really are the living dead.   Rather than being a depressing thought, this idea has the potential to liberate us from the…

  • The Bye-biscus!

        A fading hibuscus becomes a bye-biscus. Every hello is a good-bye.   We never know how or when, but all beginings have their endings.       Here's something I never knew, according to Webster, good-bye is a contraction of God be with ye.

  • Favorite Autumn Colors

        The maple tree leaves, my favorite autumn colors.   What are yours? Do you have a favorite mum? How about those white pumpkins? Maybe we'll have purple pumpkins next year!   Are you carving or baking them, or just enjoying their company?   And always the perennial worry, what to do with the…

  • Beware The Shadows…

        Shadows projected on a screen create a monochromatic garden.   Is it an illusion or a delusion?      

  • Reluctant Lady

        Yes. Of course I have a story… but, not now, another time.   Come back another time. You'll see.   Yes, I have a story.       The Reluctant Lady is tucked away in one of the magnificent hedges at LaDew Gardens, in Jarrettsville Maryland.

  • Green Giant

                  Detail of an "Elephant Ear," Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania.