Season's Greetings

 

 

Wishing you the very best of holidays!

 

Here's a link to a post from last year,

A Gardener's Night Before Christmas.

Enjoy!

A Hushed October Morning

 October

by Robert Frost

O hushed October morning mild

Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;

Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild,

Should waste them all.

The crows above the forest call;

Tomorrow they may form and go.

O hushed October morning mild

Begin the hours of this day slow.

Make the day seem to us less brief.

Hearts not averse to being beguiled,

Beguile us in the way you know.

 

Release one leaf at break of day;

At noon release another leaf;

One from our trees, one far away

Retard the sun with gentle mist;

Enchant the land with amethyst.

Slow, slow!

For the grape's sake, if they were all,

Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,

Whose clustered fruit must else be lost --

For the grapes' sake along the wall.

Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets and I especially like this poem. Rain and wind these past two days have spirited away much of the fall color but the memories remain. Happy Autumn!

By Karen Geisler

M-O-T-H-E-R in the Garden

Million bells or Calibrachoa 'Cali Star Pink''

"M" is for the million bells she gave me.

Hosta 'Queen of the Sea'

"O" means she's original and likes her foliage bold.

Hosta 'Tears of Joy," a miniature

"T" is for the tears when she first saw me

Bleeding Heart or
Dicentra spectrabilis 'Gold Heart'

"H" is for her heart of purest gold.

Blue-eyed grass or Sisyrinchium angustifolium 'Lucerne'

"E" is for her eyes, with love light beaming.

Rosa 'Wisley 2008,'  a David Austin rose

"R" is for the rose she'll always be.

Put them all together they spell

"Mother"

A word that means the world -- and the garden -- to me.

(With apologies to poet Howard Johnson)

 

By Karen Geisler