About Me

SKYLINE NURSERY: I am a Sequim WA. nurseryman and grower of rare plants. I also enjoy garden stories. In 1993 I began a humorous but short lived magazine called Bindweed. Its inspiration came from one of my customers. Maggie I will use that as my first blog in Remembrances. All of the plants shown are grown here in Sequim.

Garden related Calendars … what is this month to you?

 

 Example: What is January/February? … and it’s meaning to you? What do you need in February and subsequent months. Ten words each. No discrimination allowed between adjectives, adverbs, nouns or verbs. Clever propositional phrases count as singles.

You may note that I cheated! I also added a few thoughts about what each month might need to make it a bit brighter.

Spell the month out vertically and give a meaning to each line.

JANUARY:

January is a weaver of grayness…ice and snow of silences and the stiffness of deciduous limbs.
An earth that leans way from the sun, and misses it’s orientation.
Nasty , filled with long nippy nights, nailed in snow and ice
Unarguably cold as well as Unavoidable, and sometimes just damn unbearable.
A season of loving. It spreads its warm gray blanket and then tucks in in. Tighter, warmer closer.
Remember the homeless, who call packing crates their homes and their fear of back alley wolves.
Yew trees bedecked with berries and Yerba buena tea.

January needs:
Fire makers and the faithfulness of fire tenders — the blessings of families. The Spirit of transformation found in light, warmth and laughter. Gifting’s of a sun that will soon re-waken.
Compassion for all forgotten flowers – locked or forgotten in winter beds, cold indeed. Remembrances that we too can be so transplanted.
January is:
“Wood in the kitchen stove, bouquets of apples and cloves. Wintergreen, horsetail, rose hips in the tea.”  (Nancy and Herb)

FEBRUARY: is the month most mispent..

Florally deprived
Eventually spring will come
Burr
Rain
U R my Valentine
Almost spring
Ready for soft warm earth
Yeah! It’s almost SPRING!

February is the trickster’s month. February is a valentine to open hidden doors, to springtime waking the heart of poetic words. Valentine smiles and warm relaxations ignite warmer flows. Love, dreams and fantasies meld this month into the lion’s heart of March.
(Herb Senft)

A February edit was sent to me by Diane Reinhold
She reminded me, that not only was it the birthday month of two of our greatest presidents … it also bestows the potential of one being born on the 29th, resulting in those lucky souls of being perpetually youthful. (But what of Social Security, I wonder?) Be careful of what you wish for!

APRIL IS:
April showers on April days
Pouring raindrops through the sun rays
Roses budding under the dews
In shades of deep shimmering hues
Leaving me smiling, through and through
(Yosemite a garden contributor)

JUNE:
JULY:
AUGUST:

SEPTEMBER:

OCTOBER:

O’ the skies and trees appear in rosy blushes
Clouds swirl about over the crisp Autumn thrushes
The candy and yams are all abundant and sweet
Or are the hams, turkeys, and roasts enough to eat?
Brrr, could it be that winters around the corner?
Enjoy this wondrous month now, or come November
Roasting your toes at the oven is where you’ll be…

October is revolution, black cats, and green noses
ruby reds, carrot tops, and lightened mosses
Every part of nature soothes and flows
with molasses dances of slow wind and nest bound crows

When school is still new enough, naught to worry
and the snows have not come in all their flurries
The world is half dark, half light, all spice
pumpkins, cloves, ale, apples, and well fed mice

Everyone in their homes packed in real nice. (Shelby Senft)

NOVEMBER:
DECEMBER:

New ventures often have trouble completing their goals. I invite you to contribute poetically and most of all to enjoy. I hope to hear from you. What are these months to you? What do you need in March, and subsequent months. Try to keep descriptions short, no discrimination allowed between adjectives, adverbs, nouns or verbs. Very clever prepositional phrases are exempted from size limitations. Help me out on January … but that month is taken for. All others are for the taking, with credit or links to your own sites. All Garden Poets out there waken and contribute.

(C) Herb Senft 2008