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Planning a Garden
Before making a garden, it is very important to plan its use and purpose.  A garden can have many purposes— aesthetic, functional, and recreational. Uses for the garden space are:

    Cooperation with nature                                       Relaxation
     
    Plant cultivation                                                  Family dinners on the terrace

    Observance of nature                                          Children playing in the yard   

    Bird- and insect-watching                                    Reading and relaxing in the hammock

    Reflection on the changing seasons                     Maintaining the flowerbeds

    Pottering in the shed                                           Basking in warm sunshine

    Escaping oppressive sunlight and heat                 Growing useful produce  

    Flowers to cut and bring inside for indoor beauty    Fresh herbs and vegetables for cooking 
   



Gardening
Ask Barbara  or Julianna
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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible:  The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.
If you don't  want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
-  Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, 1996, p. 101


I do not understand how anyone can live
without one small place of enchantment to turn to.
-  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Connection with gardens, even small ones, even potted plants, can become windows to the inner life.  The simple act of stopping and looking at the beauty around us can be prayer.
-   Patricia R. Barrett, The Sacred Garden
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