What’s growing in the garden right now….end of May, Hudson Valley.
Photos by Nina Gimmel
Ferns with Brunnera and Phlox
Images Nina Gimmel
Yellow parrot tulips 💛
images by Nina Gimmel
A Wood, by Richard Wilbur
Some would distinguish nothing here but oaks,
Proud heads conversant with the power and glory
Of heaven’s rays or heaven’s thunderstrokes,
And adumbrators to the understory,
Where, in their shade, small trees of modest leanings
Contend for light and are content with gleanings.
And yet here’s dogwood: overshadowed, small,
But not inclined to droop and count its losses,
It cranes its way to sunlight after all,
And signs the air of May with Maltese crosses.
And here’s witch hazel, that from underneath
Great vacant boughs will bloom in winter’s teeth.
Given a source of light so far away
That nothing, short or tall, comes very near it,
Would it not take a proper fool to say
That any tree has not the proper spirit?
Air, water, earth and fire are to be blended,
But no one style, I think, is recommended.
The witch hazel is blooming now in Columbia County NY
Christmas beauty at Hort & Pott, Greenville NY
A frosty, misty morning in Claverack NY
Images- Nina B Gimmel
Autumn upstate in October 2022
Images NB Gimmel
I’m in love with exceptional sculpture and these restful, stylish interiors. Not my images.
