~ garden girl ~

Illustration: Elsa Beskow

Welcome to June, everyone! 😄

We did it! 🙌

And to celebrate, here is a poem from the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) which I think is just brilliant.

Read it slowly. Savour it. Should inspire you to make this month a good one.

Carpe Diem 🌿

Pink Lady’s Slipper orchid, Cypripedium acaule

A) Glimro

the lost

lost garden series, 2021

“As he read, I fell in love the way [he] fell asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Other plans…
Illustration by Elsa Beskow

The Potato Harvesters, Flora Macdonald Reid, 1883. Anglo-Scottish Macdonald Reid (1860-1945) dedicated her life to her art, choosing to remain unmarried. Many of her works depict markets and agricultural workers.

“My idea of a natural border is where all the plants grow together...just as nature would have intended'..
— Margery Fish

Moments before the undertow of roses swept her away, she whispered final words. #RoseWednesday

Shhh…hear it?

the twa rams