Thursday, January 29, 2009

Doubly Itchy For Spring




I'm doubly anxious for spring to get here, because I really have two gardens that I want to be working on; our flower garden, and the nature preserve that I am volunteer manager of. My biggest project this year won't be in our garden, but rather in the forty acre preserve: a four acre area in the center of it has been cleared of brush and this year we will start converting it into a beautiful wildflower meadow, which I know will be filled with butterflies and songbirds. All of us gardeners carry about in the back of our minds the knowledge that our gardens will probably eventually disappear; as we move or die off, it's unlikely our gardens will long survive.
That's one of the reasons I so much enjoy working on the nature preserve; I can envision that hundreds of springs from now, the wildflowers will still bloom there, with butterflies fluttering across the meadow in the sunlight, as the songbirds sing in the treetops.
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// posted by IBOY @ 6:25 AM
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I can envision that hundreds of springs from now, the wildflowers will still bloom there, with butterflies fluttering across the meadow in the sunlight, as the songbirds sing in the treetops.

What wonderful inspiration for such a worthy project. We should all plant a little plot of earth in such a manner, for the very same reason. It's why I love to plant trees. :)
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 29, 2009
 
Yours is in a preserve that should surely remain. My husband's efforts go towards a piece of land we own in the country... and who knows if anyone, years afterwards, will value his efforts. However, it paints a beautiful picture in the mind; that the area will always be there for the wildlife.
# posted by Blogger Shady Gardener : January 29, 2009
 
And millions of years from now someone will dig up the fossils and wonder about how they were all connected. This would be true immortality, wouldn't it?
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 29, 2009
 
Nancy,Shady, & Corinna... It's very satisfying to me to know that this little corner of nature will still be there when I'm not.
Don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 29, 2009
 
Is that a variegated Cirsium nipponicum? Presume that's in the grden rather than the nature preserve........? Love your blog - best one going!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : January 30, 2009
 
Anony... actually it's just in the preserve; I think it's what's called a pasture thistle (but I'm not terribly good at identifying thistles).
don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : January 30, 2009
 
on this very chilly and foggy morning your post makes me hungry for the first signs of spring.
# posted by Blogger Sky : January 30, 2009
 
Sky... we are just back from Kansas; it was 60 there, a foot of snow still here in Iowa when we got back :o[

don
# posted by Blogger IBOY : February 01, 2009
 
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