The Old Codger
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A Garden Of Earthy Delights
You can keep your doctored lawns, your delicately set out garden beds. Give me a betwixt and between garden any time. They are so full of wonderful unexpected delights. So I invite you into my garden, meandering along paths dotted with wild flowers in the wrong place.
My betwixt and between garden is a wonderful sight, as in early morning I walk the crazy paved path which meanders first to the left and then to the right. At each turn an unexpected view delights my eyes, a changed sight but still familiar as each season brings with it contented sighs.
In it’s changing it affords me sites full of delight.
The early Crocus, Daffodils, Primrose, Polyanthus and Winters Aconite, all greet me with that special smile that only flowers can bring. A Wild Arum plant has thrusts its white sheath up from the soil this spring. Where had it come from? I am pleased that it has chosen my garden to grow and to ornate an Elder Berry bush having taken root by the front gate.
As it looks so happy and content, who am I to disturb it? If I did not plant it then it is heaven sent. At times I will move my pathway to accommodate some happily growing perennial. So let the Elder Berry stays, standing erect like some pretentious general.
The thought of delicious wine comes to mind that I will sup one day. Furthermore, in their season Dandelion and Burdock, Nettle, Parsnip and Turnip will delight in their own way.
The silver dew feeds my garden where birds enjoy their stay, where you will come across around some unexpected flowered bend a contented old codger.
Stay a while if you have a mind and talk to my children, for they enjoy the lilt of a quite voice.
Drink from the bubbling spring, cup your hands and taste of its sweetness, it is your choice to
come and go as you please in my garden of earthly delights, do not look for that which should or should not be, but that what is.
You can keep your doctored lawns, your delicately set out garden beds. Give me a betwixt and between garden any time. They are so full of wonderful unexpected delights. So I invite you into my garden, meandering along paths dotted with wild flowers in the wrong place.
My betwixt and between garden is a wonderful sight, as in early morning I walk the crazy paved path which meanders first to the left and then to the right. At each turn an unexpected view delights my eyes, a changed sight but still familiar as each season brings with it contented sighs.
In it’s changing it affords me sites full of delight.
The early Crocus, Daffodils, Primrose, Polyanthus and Winters Aconite, all greet me with that special smile that only flowers can bring. A Wild Arum plant has thrusts its white sheath up from the soil this spring. Where had it come from? I am pleased that it has chosen my garden to grow and to ornate an Elder Berry bush having taken root by the front gate.
As it looks so happy and content, who am I to disturb it? If I did not plant it then it is heaven sent. At times I will move my pathway to accommodate some happily growing perennial. So let the Elder Berry stays, standing erect like some pretentious general.
The thought of delicious wine comes to mind that I will sup one day. Furthermore, in their season Dandelion and Burdock, Nettle, Parsnip and Turnip will delight in their own way.
The silver dew feeds my garden where birds enjoy their stay, where you will come across around some unexpected flowered bend a contented old codger.
Stay a while if you have a mind and talk to my children, for they enjoy the lilt of a quite voice.
Drink from the bubbling spring, cup your hands and taste of its sweetness, it is your choice to
come and go as you please in my garden of earthly delights, do not look for that which should or should not be, but that what is.