July brings heat, humidity and a great desire to sit back and enjoy the mid-summer beauty the garden offers us. This got me to thinking about adding a link to the website Debbie Suggs and I created two years ago when we published our book, A Giving Garden. http://www.agivinggarden.com/ If you look at the pictures on that site, you will see the garden in its earlier stages when it was quite new. You can also read "our story" about how our own giving garden came to be. Here is a small section:
"We feel that the garden reflects how well Durham Academy works together as a community. This garden has at times been planted by second graders, watered by first graders, tended carefully by third and fourth graders, and has had middle and upper school advisories help out. Teachers now comprise the Garden Committee, and it isn’t unusual to see them work in the garden after school, on a Saturday morning, or during the summer. Many hands work together to make our garden grow. At any given moment, you might find someone gently rubbing lavender or rosemary to smell the fragrant herbs or (with permission) pulling out a fresh radish or cherry tomato to eat. Butterflies flutter from flower to flower. Children come to talk to one another or play games during recess. Even in the dead of winter, it is the symbol of what a school is all about—nurturing growth and helping to put everything in balance. We give to our garden, but it gives back even more."
[Mary Kendall and Debbie Suggs. A Giving Garden ©2009.]
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| A quiet place in the garden |
Both photographs are by Debbie N. Suggs ©2009
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