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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Sentimental
by Lisa Newman, Art Director
I was walking around the garden this morning. Something I do most mornings. Coffee in hand. Amos and Chester (my labs) at my side. I note the plants, see what’s blooming, think about what changes I might like to make. Take stock. Just take it all in before the day gets going.
I realized this morning how many memories are attached to everything in the garden. There’s the spot, once vacant, where my dad and I stood the first time he came to see my new house. A lilac planted in his memory now stands there. The stonewall started by visiting friends—wobbly but irreplaceable. Fritallaria planted one fall by a friend as a surprise to cheer me the next spring. The tiny but growing maple rescued from the family house by my brother. Its parent was a tree given to my mother by her mother, which was too large to remove when we sold that house. Plants given to me to start my garden by friends, all gifts from their own gardens. Empty spaces of now-gone plants mistakenly weeded by children eager to help and too cherished to scold.
I’m sure that your garden is also full all of these kinds of memories. We all just need to look beyond the plants and the hardscape to remember how everything found its home in our garden.
There are so many other spots, plants, places that hold wonderful memories. While I love the garden itself, I’m realizing how much more is living and loveable in that space I call my garden.
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12/4/2007 9:37:23 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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