While I am in Saint Louis prostituting myself for plants at the Perennial Plant Symposium Horticulturist Geoff VonBurg is filling in for me. One of Geoff’s gardens here is the recently restored Orchard. But I have no idea what he is blogging about. Thanks Geoff.
Irvin Etienne, Aesthetic Czar, whose garden trowel I am not worthy to clean, is away this week. He said something about a professional conference in St Louis, but I hear Dolly Parton is performing in Branson, so I’m not sure…
Anyway, he left me keys to the blog-o-graph and said, “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.”
More and more this season, I have been enraptured with wonder at what nature does. For the blog’s title, I turned to Jens Jensen, one of the great evangelists for the church of mother earth. In the first chapter of Siftings (1939) he said that the “[natural world] about us has within it all the joy and happiness that we need.” Amen. As much as my life is enriched by the amazing work I see in our galleries, more nourishing for my soul is the beauty and humility of plants. I want to offer three little samples.
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