“What flowers are to our gardens, the arts are to life.”
—Jean-Claude-Richard de Satin Non (French Printmaker)
Spring is emerging (to varying degrees)! Ripe with metaphor and beauty, the garden is one of the oldest motifs in the history of art, inspiring many delightful and familiar works.
Let’s take a look at a handful of them:
“The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all.” —Wendell Berry
Sometimes I remember my grandfather’s house, A garden with tiger lilies, my grandmother Waving a white apron to passing trains On that trestle across the clay road.
—from the poem, “Sometimes,” by Bearden
“Of late there have been rare instances when childhood impressions would flash across my mind—it is not that I wish to go back, or mourn for the past. I only wish I might look at nature new as I did then…”
-Charles E. Burchfield, Journals; August 4, 1914
“We couldn’t do without flowers.” - Marc Chagall
“How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.”
I’m reading Kitchen Garden Revival to help me plan my expanded raised beds this spring. Tomatoes and herbs have been successful for me, and I had a great Romaine harvest many years ago.
I do have some marigolds and zinnias that I’m trying to grow from seeds in my house right now.
I’ve been thinking about Narnia (LWW)- the winter is over, and we have spring again.
Gardens in Art
I love this post! I haven’t had much success growing flowers, but I love to grow tomatoes! Haha!
I’m reading Kitchen Garden Revival to help me plan my expanded raised beds this spring. Tomatoes and herbs have been successful for me, and I had a great Romaine harvest many years ago.
I do have some marigolds and zinnias that I’m trying to grow from seeds in my house right now.
I’ve been thinking about Narnia (LWW)- the winter is over, and we have spring again.