06.23.08
Gardening in the Mind’s Eye
E and I traveled south to Williamsburg this past weekend. We spent the day on Saturday roaming around the colonial village at Williamsburg, and part of Sunday at Jamestown. I enjoyed the weekend immensely - it really fed my inner history buff, but I kept finding myself drawn to the gardens, again and again. There were so many happy looking gardens there. Many of the gardens had the same things growing: squash, herbs, fennel, and medicinal plants, but a few were full of flowers and other veggies.
It was fortifying to see such happy plants in abundance. It also gives me ideas for my own garden, the one in my head, that keeps morphing into different shapes. I don’t yet know when I’ll be able to plant my garden in the ground, but the garden in my mind’s eye is a beautiful place to be.
jeff-naturehills said,
June 24, 2008 at 2:24 pm
When my wife and I take trips we always try to include stops at some type of gardens as we always get ideas from them. When we travel out of our growing zone and see all the pretty lush plants we can’t grow we wish for a huge sunroom that we would never build, as we have no room.