Friday 24 April 2015

My Earthly garden of delights...

The daffs are still hanging on in there despite me spending a lot of time in Wales recently. Some of the smaller plants have suffered from not being watered, but the summer bulbs seem to be coming through and there’s plenty going on in my magic garden. Of course it’s only a small magic, but then it’s only a small garden and four walls do not a prison make. You can do a lot with walls, they are an opportunity not a limitation. They are like blank canvasses needing decoration, galleries awaiting art.

Yes my garden is small, but even so I think I’ve managed to create a bit of peace full of interesting questions and I like nothing better than to sit out in it on a sunny morning. I’m sitting in it now listening to the little fountain in the pond and to the insects buzz among the flowers. If I try I can ignore the planes overhead and the call of the builders down the road. It’s my small world of tranquility and I know every inch of it. Sometimes it makes me feel like God, a small insignificant garden god; like my red Buddha on the miniature mountain climbing the wall by the pond.

It’s a place full of quirks, eccentricity and spells, of stone cats and pottery hares, psychedelic snails, rocks and pebbles, bits of driftwood hanging from the walls, old hanging lucky horseshoes, moons and hearts, time-caught butterflies, piles of deceased snail shells, bird boxes without the hope of a nesting bird, silly faced frogs, hidden gnomes, rusting keys, and my friendly single silent fish. But most of all there is peace. Peace and love and fun.

I guess you’ve guessed? I love and am delighted my garden.

   


12 comments:

  1. Eden Moon on FB
    So you should be, looks fab and full of magic

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  2. Sharon Taylor on FB
    It is not the size of the garden that matters, mine is a bit bigger, but I always find myself navigating towards the back and the greenhouse and the space there that is as tranquil as you can get in South East London, peace is where you find it x

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    1. Andrew Height
      I see so many people digging up their green spaces so that they can put cars on them. Lumps of metal or joy? Makes me very angry sometimes.

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  3. Sharon Taylor on FB
    how are the solar lamps doing?

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    1. Andrew Height
      They are going great. Only one has died. The Wilico 85 pence ones are great and I have solar fairy lights on my garden arch that are magical.

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  4. EDen Moon on FB
    Garden looks lovely

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    2. Andrew Height
      Thanks Eden Moon. I have the time to make it into a place of calm and magic. I have indulged myself and my eccentricity so that all kinds of things are incorporated - driftwood, fossils, horse shoes, moons, hearts, even a few gnomes - and of course a hare. I have a totem post to pin things to and a fish in the pond to talk to. It is just the right side of over the top and not quite the wrong side of tacky - but it is the plants that really hold it together.

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    3. Eden Moon
      Sounds a bit like my garden - love it

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    4. Andrew Height
      Actually Eden Moon it was you that inspired me.

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  5. Andrew Height
    My totem post , tucked away behind the gate, it's where I go to sort the world out. Thanks.

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