Scilla siberica |
"We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
And I wonder if I'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day."
But we think about them anyway
And I wonder if I'm really with you now
Or just chasing after some finer day."
Rose 'American Pillar' |
Is that not a perfect description of the gardener's thoughts in late Winter? Visualizing the garden, not brown and stiff and dreary here at the end of Cold Days, but green and glorious in the coming Summer? When I walked through my garden today, I wasn't really there most of the time. I wasn't really talking to those naked rose canes, nor were my finger's caressing the soft bud of that magnolia. I saw only the rose that will bloom here tomorrow, only the sweet-perfumed magnolia that will soon welcome the warm rains.
'Mohawk' viburnum |
"Anticipation, anticipation
Is making me late
Is keeping me waiting"
Sedum 'Matrona' |
Why, Scilla siberica, are you keeping me waiting? It's time to open those pale blue buds and color the old gray mulch with the reflection of the sky. Come on, Viburnum fragrans 'Mohawk', come blow me away yet another year with that otherworldly sweet fragrance. Daffodils, bring forth the sunshine that hides in your heart and release Spring with your joyful trumpets!
Sometimes, I wonder that old gardeners bother to enter their gardens at all during the dark months. I know, right now, the glorious tulip that will bloom in this spot. I know that from these tiny thick green leaves, a magnificent Sedum 'Matrona' will bloom to close the door on the Fall garden. I know...I know...and yet I must see it again. Or, as Carly put it:
"And tomorrow we might not be together
I'm no prophet, Lord I don't know nature's way
So I'll try to see into your eyes right now
And stay right here, 'cause these are the good old days."
Thank you, Ms. Simon. These are indeed the good old days.
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