From the category archives:
Each Spring I look forward to seeing which of the lilac bushes in the garden will be first to bloom. Usually the dark purple blossoms appear first, then come the softer shades of purple, and finally the pearly-white flowers. With the season’s cool days and colder nights, the flowers can last for weeks; but once picked, both blossoms and their sweet, subtle perfume fade quickly.
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On my excursion to the garden shop this week, I was intrigued with the delicate design of a tiny bell-shaped flower on the Deutzia plant. This dense, rounded, deciduous shrub is native to Europe, Central America, and eastern and central Asia (from the Himalayas east to Japan and the Philippines), with the highest species diversity found in China. Deutzia is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs in the family Hydrangeaceae.
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When I spotted the small ad in the local paper inviting the public to the Monte Toyon Rhododendron Gardens of Maurie and Fran Sumner, I imagined this would be at an exquisitely landscaped private residence of an elderly couple whose delicate blossoms cultivated over their many years together would be shared with other flower lovers.
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ~ Wilhelm Reich
Here is a girl, standing at the end of an alleyway in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province in China, in the early days of the Gregorian year 2010. The longer I look at these photos the more love I feel for her.
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Don’t go outside your house to see flowers.
My friend, don’t bother with that excursion.
Inside your body there are flowers.
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
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when faces called flowers float out of the ground
and breathing is wishing and wishing is having-
but keeping is downward and doubting and never
-it’s april(yes,april;my darling)it’s spring!
yes the pretty birds frolic as spry as can fly
yes the little fish gambol as glad as can be
(yes the mountains are dancing together)
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Pink Breath of Heaven ~ also called Coleonema Pulchrum and Diosma ~ blooms Winter through Spring and intermittently during the year. Its foliage sends out a fragrant perfume when brushed or rubbed, which is one reason the evergreen shrub is often planted along walkways.
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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world. ~ Walt Whitman
Sometimes people speak of how people are destroying the planet, and while that may be true in a limited sense, I tend to think that the planet will simply shrug and issue some stern correctives if it becomes absolutely necessary.
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I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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