A Garden Just For You

[mothhawk]

I've been browsing gardening quotation pages, and came across this. I thought it was rather nice and worth sharing. Sadly there was no acknowledgement of who wrote it.

A Garden Just For You

For the garden of your daily living plant
three rows of peas:
1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul

Plant four rows of squash:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness

Plant four rows of lettuce:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another

No garden is without turnips:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another

To conclude our garden we must have thyme:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends

Water freely with patience and cultivate
with love and you will reap what you sow.

[mothhawk]

Does anyone else have favorite or inspirational garden related quotes to share?

[veggiechicken]

I would add to that garden:-

Three Rows of beans
1. Bean a good friend and neighbour
2. Bean good to your family
3. Bean there to lend a hand

and a row of Cabbages as cabbages should be good hearted

[Florence Fennel]

If I remember rightly this is Kipling (but I'll need to check that). The old lady neighbour I used to look after years ago could recite the whole thing, but I remember this little bit:

Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.

[Bill HH]

Burt's Pansies

Burt’s Pansies.

Imperial forces swoop down on planet earth
Just south of Putney bridge, London
Moving swiftly, Darth Vader assembles his troops
They rendezvous in the garden of number forty eight Victoria Road.

Mrs Onions (pronounced Oh –Nions if you please)
Is washing up in her tiny kitchen
Through steamy windows she spies a dark figure
“Ere Burt” she shouts “There’s a drunk in fancy dress treading on your pansies”

Rolling pin in hand, she marches down the passage
“Oi you with the coal scuttle on yer ed
Gerrorf my Burt’s pansies
Before I lamp you with me rolling pin”.

Darth Vader turns swiftly to confront Mrs Onions
In his laboured breathless voice he speaks to her
“Madam I am Darth Vader and the people of earth
Are to be enslaved by imperial forces”.

Raising herself to her full five foot one Mrs Onions
Brandishes her rolling pin fearlessly.
“Darth Vader? What kind of a bloody name is that?
And you need to give up smoking chum your chest sounds awful.

Darth Vader stares into her eyes and attempts to use the force
To crush her cellulite adorned throat. The rolling pin took him by surprise
Leaving a massive dent in his helmet and causing him to see stars.
He withdrew his troops.” Return to the death star these creature are immune to the force”

Mrs Onions shuffled back inside
Put down the rolling pin and wiped her hands.
Burt shouted “Everything all right ole gal”?
“Yes just a load of bloody foreigners Burt”

W Harborne

[mrswadders]

if gardening is the new rock and roll, then...................


COMPOST IS THE KING

[Mysterious Gardener]

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

---May Sarton

[mothhawk]

If I remember rightly this is Kipling (but I'll need to check that). The old lady neighbour I used to look after years ago could recite the whole thing, but I remember this little bit:

Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.

The poem you quote is Kipling's "Glory of the Garden", FF, but the lines I quoted are not in that.

Poems - The Glory of the Garden

It's a poem I've always related to, since as a child I was sent out with a broken dinner knife to weed the cracks in the paving.

[Florence Fennel]

Thought it was MH, but couldn't be sure, it could have been a senior moment