BLIND BAY PUSSY WILLOW

 

Blind Bay 

Pussy Willow

(Salix ?, a large leaf gem.)

To view the sugar glaze,

please click the image.

Planted from a cutting

of Mrs. Difford's floral bouquet

many years ago.

The photo was taken 

Valentine's Day 2021

Shaw Island, Washington.

"Time does make a difference in any garden. At first, you wonder if anything will ever get large enough to count in the general picture. Then you wonder if there is any way to keep it from growing further. For years the little Cunninghamia, say, a favorite shrub, then all of a sudden it becomes a small tree, then after a while, you start thinking of it as a gnarled and marvelous fixture of the garden and can hardly think back to the time before you had it.
      The great trick, I am now sure, is to flow with the tide."

Henry Mitchell, you are gone, but please be my Valentine.

ON GARDENING

Rhododendron 'Polar Bear'
Purchased from Meerkerk Gardens, Whidbey Island, WA.
Blooming on Shaw Island this day of Eleven July 2015.

"Gardening is not some game by which one proves his superiority over others, not is it a marketplace for the display of elegant things that others cannot afford. It is, on the contrary, a growing work of creation, endless in its changing elements. It is not a monument or an achievement, but a sort of travelling, a kind of pilgrimage you might say, often a bit grubby or sweaty, though true pilgrims do not mind that. A garden is not a picture, but a language, which is of course, the major art of life."

The late, great Henry Mitchell, in the Essential Earthman.

      Slate published a beautiful tribute to one of my favorite garden writers in 1998. See Deborah Needleman