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The Hypnotic Hydrangea 

“Even in the smallest and humblest garden, a sturdy hydrangea at once proclaims the place 

as the abode of a real gardener rather than 

a mere purchaser of plants 

to cover the landscape.”

~ Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin, 2006

Behold the Lovely Clematis 

“The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.”~ Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.

Peony Pondering 

My Garden of Prayer

“My garden beautifies my yard
and adds fragrance to the air…

But it is also my cathedral 

and my quiet place of prayer…

So little do we realize

that ‘the glory and the power’

Of He who made the universe

lies hidden in a flower.”

~ Helen Steiner Rice

A Yellow Tulip Smile 

The Tulip Bed

“The May sun—whom
all things imitate—
that glues small leaves to
the wooden trees
shone from the sky
through blue gauze clouds
upon the ground. 
Under the leafy trees
where the suburban streets
lay crossed,
with houses on each corner,
tangled shadows had begun
to join
the roadway and the lawns. 
With excellent precision
the tulip bed
inside the iron fence
upreared its gaudy
yellow, white, and red,
rimmed round with grass,
reposedly.”
~ William Carlos Williams

The Hopeful Romantic Hyacinth

HYACINTH 

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I am in love with him
To whom a hyacinth is dearer
Than I shall ever be dear. 
On nights when the field-mice
Are abroad, he cannot sleep. 
He hears their narrow teeth 
At the bulbs of his hyacinths. 
But the gnawing at my heart…
He does not hear.”