"You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still."

----Thomas Moore

 

 

Iceberg Rose

April 7, 2006

Photo by BT

Camera: Canon Digital Rebel XT

 

Iceberg Rose,

You shine like a star

In my garden,

Bringing a tint of beauty

To the air.

----BT

 

Royal Dark Blue ivy geranium

April, 2006

 

"And in green underwood and cover, blossom by blossom, the spring begins."

----Algernon Charles Swinburne

 

 

Lavender Blizzard

April, 2006

 

"It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not."

----W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman, Garden Rubbish, 1936

 

 

Mahogany ivy geranium

April, 2006

 

"Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart."

----Karel Capek

 

 

 

 

 

Lavender Blizzard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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