A Garden Blessing
This blessing, like the others in this series, seeks to define and illustrate the essential virtues of a matter enormously important to the life of humankind. A garden, though it is frequently simple and plain, is more than itself, for it is a workshop for our imaginations, a point of daily contact with the forces of creation, and, even in its humblest form, a repository of transcendent beauty.Poltarness recounts for us many of the most satisfying aspects of gardens - their timelessness, their invitation to all of our senses, their restorative qualities, their silent lessons, and their need for each gardener. As usual Poltarnees has selected a lovely and unusual array of images to support each assertion, with the result that we can from these pages, sense the power of these blossoming wonders.