The Garden of Life

Today I thought I would share a poem I wrote some years ago now.. And take the opportunity to show you some of the plants in my home garden at the same time.. 

 Please click the photo’s to enlarge and read the captions..   

Enjoy!

 

The Front Lawn and Pots

The Garden of Life.  

 

 

In every lovely garden, with flowerbeds and lawns.

Hidden among the flowers, are nettles and sharp thorns.

And so in life, we have the good and bad.

Nothing is ever perfect, there’s happy times and sad.

Pots on the Front Garden Filled with Begonia’s

Begonias and Geraniums

 

We can’t always have the sunshine; we too must have some rain.

To bloom the flowers need water, in life we have our pain.

For sometimes while we’re gardening, we feel the nettles sting.

We’re reminded to be careful, when we plant our bulbs for spring.

 

Clematis in flower

 

Then once your garden is planted, and you think your work is done.

Along comes another shower, and with it weeds have sprung.

Who said gardening was easy? Just waiting for things to grow.

We have to clear out the boarders, to reap what we do sow.

 

The hanging baskets are looking good.. Hubby rigged up a water system to stop us keep climbing everyday to water. you can see the pipe coming into this one

Hanging Baskets

      

For if you look at nature, life’s answers you will find.

Everything has a cycle; we can’t bloom all the time.

Never think that the grass is greener, on the other side of the fence.

By comparing both life’s problems,

 Your neighbours might seam immense.

Clematis in flower

 

You don’t have to be a Saint, to be a special person.

Just to smile and say hello, can help someone who’s lonesome.

So pick a bunch of flowers, and hand them out with pride.

It will surely be remembered, when we reach the other side.

Busy Lizzie’s

Clematis and Nasturtium

Garden Sweet-peas

Picking Sweet-peas, The more you pick the more flowers that they produce

 

By Sue Dreamwalker

Have a Wonderful Week