My Secret Garden

Every day I can't help but marvel at how lush this year's gardens are. Everything has grown so thick and full and my gardens have matured to the point where I feel like I'm surrounded by my own 'secret garden'. With the seasonable temperatures and spring rains, everything is green and loaded with buds and flowers. I can't get over how absolutely beautiful everything looks, especially after a shower with the black earth as the perfect background for all of the colourful plants.

I try to get out and do a bit of work in the garden everyday, and the first thing I do is turn on the fountains. The sound of the water is so calming and peaceful....bliss!

Last year I caught the most beautiful lines of a poem that were painted across the back of a bench in an episode of "Call the Midwife". I googled the portion that I managed to write down and I was lucky enough to find the entire poem online. I'd love to share it with you along with some pictures that I took this week. The poem is called "God's Garden" and it was written by American poet Dorothy Frances Gurney.

Enjoy and I hope you're taking as much pleasure from your gardens this spring as I am!



 

The Lord god planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,

And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled.

So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,

 

  

For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.

 

And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod

 

And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.

 

The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--

One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.

 

For he broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
 



Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.

-Dorothy Frances Gurney

 

Take care.....Marian  xo