Side by side

Peace roses
side by side
a worm, spider and me


ag ~ 2012

More Leonard J. Buck Garden photos, a glass of iced tea...

Iced tea with blood oranges. Great color and taste.


Friday the 13th
I take my tea strong
the waiter smiles

ag ~ 2012

Wisdom Wood

Wisdom Wood is a garden. A fitting name for all that it implies. A garden is like a poem - hard to describe - yet beautiful when you come upon it. A garden can fit into a small container or it can contain a large property. Like a poem it expands your horizon.

Wisdom Wood is specifically the garden of Ruth and Fred Palace. It opened to the public yesterday as part of The Garden Conservancy Open Days Program.
www.gardenconservancy.org/



Ruth is a garden designer with a vision who is also visionary in her approach for allowing the garden to inspire and contribute to its own growth. The best gardens flourish because the garden and gardener co-create beauty and ultimately wisdom. There is always wisdom in a garden and beauty in simple truths - wisdom. Wisdom Wood grows an abundance of both.

Bravo and thank you to Ruth and Fred for their vision, dilligence and contribution to all of us by way of sharing their lovely gardens. And thank you to The Garden Conservancy and all gardeners who open their homes and gardens to the public for the sheer joy of sharing beauty.

Ruth and Fred

                                                                                                                  

An approach to the Japanese Dry Stream Garden



The Bog Garden

lingering

deep into twilight

a robin and me



A Beginning

How to begin? It starts with a wish or a dream to write and share. Why here? Why now? I'm not sure. I only know that I love my work as a landscape designer and nurserywoman (grower of plants). I also love poetry - not all poetry but those short Japanese inspired poems that can be spoken in one breath - haiku. My work inspires my poems and my poems deepen my appreciation for my work. I'd like to share this process and in doing so learn more.

It is my intention to grow my poetry and poet my garden. If I can shed any light on this symbiotic relationship I will be very very happy.

why not the June sky lingers in one star's blue light

published in Roadrunner 2008