I recently visited the Lebanon, Ohio cemetery. The cemetery was started in the mid 1800’s and has over 11,000 burials. It is a peaceful place for one to rest. The stones are situated among large trees that provide eternal shade and protection.
Today, I am proud to be a guest on the website, My Botanical Garden. I hope that my explorations in knowing the land by walking it daily, camera in hand, will bring the garden’s readers at least some of the delight it has brought me for the past 18 months. Today, I’d like to share a way of looking at gardens: not in space, or in the balance of species with each other, but in time. After all, as creatures of the earth, I think we all live there.
Abandoned Nlaka’pamux Church, Thompson River Grasslands, British Columbia
I think it’s time we all moved back to the Earth.
Gardens live in time. Let’s start with that. It snowed last night. Don’t worry. Here in the dry grasslands in the troughs of a volcanic plateau east of the uplifted volcanoes of the Northeast Pacific Coast, it is not winter. It is late spring…
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Come with me along a winding trail that meanders through trees, alongside hills and next to ancient resting places. A place where people have loved, lived and died. Listen closely as their voices are thrown to the wind, preserved by the trees in their trunks, released only occasionally for those chosen to follow the path. Share the experience of the sun warming your face just like it did for the explorers from the east. Remember what was before, live what is now and imagine what will be as you wander along.
Source: Wikipedia
Anthemis tinctoria ‘E.C.Buxton’
Anthemis maritima
Further information:
How to grow Anthemis- Telegraph article
Anthemis marschalliana– silver foliage
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