What’s All This?

Seeing Green in the Bluegrass State . . .  

This is a place for Kentucky gardeners to sit and rest a spell, to hang out and share some ideas. Imagine a row of rockers on a porch that’s overgrown with climbing roses, and a view of the corn patch and staked tomatoes and beans across a nearby field. Tomorrow evening if the mosquitos aren’t too thick, we can visit that gazebo out by the pond, where we’ve strung some little solar-powered party lights and citronella candles. What’s on your mind? When I get a moment’s rest, my mind wanders. Lately, I’ve been trying to decide which I think is more interesting: designing plans for a brand new garden, or remembering some favorites which no longer exist. Gardens come and go, but even though if they have faded from the real world, they are preserved in the fertile ground of a gardener’s memory and imagination. We remember what our grandparents’ vegetable plots looked like, even to the exact spot that they grew. We go out of our way to visit renowned gardens for inspiration, and detour from our usual dog-walking route to check out a curious looking item in the neighbor’s yard. We have direct knowledge of that feeling of well-being gardens can bring, and are moved to share that information.Once we get up out of the rocker, though, there is a third choice for gardeners, and that’s to plant a seed, weed a row, pick some of the flowers we have watched emerge from the earth and day-by-day helped transform into a rainbow of colors, and harvest some fresh veggies just in time for dinner. It’s the taking action and maintaining our very real gardens, which show the attributes and habits of the past, our work in the present and intentions for the future bound up in their existence and growth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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