Here we are on Day 4 of Cathy’s meme ‘A Week of Flowers’ over at Words and Herbs, What a great idea to remind ourselves of summer in these dark days! It also reminds me that in six more months, these scenes will return again. It’s a beautiful world out there.
As we approach Winter Solstice, I want to cheer myself up by going back to Summer Solstice. Here in Dungarvan, The Dreary One occurs on 22nd December at 3:27am. Just another eighteen days and things will slowly begin to take a turn for the better here in the Northern Hemisphere. I just want to wish everyone well, and for myself, I’m wishing that my high motivation for garden writing will continue for many a day. I write to share my motivation, yet it’s primarily therapeutic. It’s my magic medicine.
I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.
Marta McDowell
A plant that flowers for four the six months between both solstices is Begonia. At the minute, these are in the glasshouse, depotted and the corm is drying out. The cycle will begin once again in late spring.
P.
