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LindsayP
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since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

0 posted 2008-03-31 07:20 PM

                     Garden Guru

Peter Cundall is his name, he’s on the tele’ every week
The garden show at one o’clock, at great gardens you may peek,
He makes it look so easy with all the vedgies that he grows,
Rhubarb and asparagus and all the other things he sows.

He often takes us on a trip to see gardens of great note,
So many types of English trees & about natives he will quote,
From the South coast of Tassie’ to the rain forest of the north,
To show us the best of all the gardens he happily takes us forth.

Roses are most people’s favourite, grown widely across our land
And when a new color is nurtured there’s always great demand,
Petunias are my favourites, flowering right throughout Springtime
And perfume exuded by flowering stocks is really quite sublime.

In Spring & Autumn every year they hold the open garden scheme,
To some it’s a great ambition, to some it’s just a dream,
People come from miles around and even from Interstate
To see the Macedon Ranges Gardens & of their attributes relate.

When winter sneaks upon us and dark shadows start to creep,
The English trees all drop their leaves & quietly go to sleep,
We batten down the hatches & prepare for winter’s cold
And wait anxiously for Spring flowers, more valuable than gold.

The pleasure one gets from a garden is a genuine boost for the soul,
It relaxes the nerves & tension & should be everybody’s goal,
It’s been said and even quite often, right from the time of my birth,
That you are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-03-31 08:15 PM

Beautiful poem, LP and you are so right. That's what I've been doing the last few days, repotting my hanging flowers (I love Petunias too) such pretty colors.
Getting my little piece of heaven ready for summer. The weather is beautiful right now, great for working outside.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

2 posted 2008-04-01 06:18 AM

Fantastic...a pleasure to read...you're good at this...James

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2008-04-01 09:12 AM

Lindsay~
And you KNOW this one called me out to play~

LOVE this ... I do~
May all your posies be blooming beauties~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~
~*The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but it's echo endures much longer*~
Email - [email protected]

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2008-04-01 09:16 AM

now wishing i had a garden

great write Lindsay!

Rick
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since 2001-06-21

Posts 2903
Victoria, Australia

5 posted 2008-04-01 09:35 AM

Hi Lindsay mate, enjoyed the read my friend, did some gardening today. Be well and take care.

Rick

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2008-04-01 10:55 AM

LindsayP,

This is well arranged, and has good end rhymes.

Gardens are dirty work, I stay away from them.

Bobby

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

7 posted 2008-04-01 11:43 AM

a very pleasure to read..

yann

Joyce Johnson

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since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

8 posted 2008-04-01 11:46 AM

Oh Bobby, you don't know what you're talking about. Nothing dirty about good firtile garden soil.

I'd like to see Australian gardens
Just once before I die
And English formal, Irish wild
To give their way a try.
But I'm still of the opinion
I could travel around and round
And not find more floral beauty
Than in my own loved Puget Sound.

Thanks for the great endorsement of my favorite activity. Australia sounds enchanting to this gardener. Joyce

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

9 posted 2008-04-01 01:35 PM

quote:
The pleasure one gets from a garden is a genuine boost for the soul,
It relaxes the nerves & tension & should be everybody’s goal,
It’s been said and even quite often, right from the time of my birth,
That you are nearer to God in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

How true, how true, dear Lindsay. I still dream of my childhood garden, now I have only balconies ... but still I love to tend the flowers. I celebrate every little bud that grows. My favorite Spring flowers are lilacs and then the paeonias. Wonder of wonders.

Wonderful! Thank you for this!

Love,
Margherita

HopeS
Member Elite

since 2000-12-22

Posts 4596
Perth Western Australia

10 posted 2008-04-01 02:38 PM

I love being out in my garden ..... by the way , I went to Perth Garden Show last year and met Peter Cundall, he's a great bloke

Hope

effjayel
Senior Member

since 2007-09-30

Posts 1474
At the Crossroads of Infinity

11 posted 2008-04-01 03:26 PM

Another fine write Linds, I think I am enjoying your retirement almost as much as you! Take care, John

LindsayP
Member Elite

since 2007-07-28

Posts 3410
Australia, Victoria

12 posted 2008-04-01 09:07 PM

To my very good friends, Ida, James, Passing Shadows, Rick, Bobby, Yann, Joyce,

Margherita, Hope and John. What would I do without all you kind folks. You are always

so generous in your response, thank you. Have a great day and God Bless you all.

Lindsay

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

13 posted 2010-11-21 02:22 AM

Splendor is to be found in the garden.

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