Saturday, March 12, 2011

Painting a Garden

Take thy plastic spade,


It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,

They are thy colours.

~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782

I love the idea that a gardener is like a painter - they choose their plants and placement as carefully as any artist weilding a brush. They "paint" with dirt, and plants, and rocks and spades, and rakes. And both artist and gardener use their hands to make beauty.