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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -”Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling, “The Glory of the Garden”

A Gardener's Work is Never Done

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10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 11th 2010

10 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Bernard says:
    July 12, 2010 at 8:50 am

    I’ve done a bit of ‘playing’ in a beautiful garden recently. :)
    No sitting in the shade for some!

    Actually, most, if not all, of England’s (official) Gardens were made by the richest of the land sitting in the shade.
    The hard work was done by us ‘peasants’ toiling for a few crumbs that fell from their tables.

    • CherryPie says:
      July 12, 2010 at 7:22 pm

      I hope you had a fun time at the weekend :-)

      Now don’t you get me started about those rich people sitting in the shade whilst the workers worked. I will be going looking for my banner to wave again ;-)

  2. Ginnie says:
    July 12, 2010 at 10:53 am

    Our last B&B in France last week, Cherie, was run by an English couple who had a delightful English garden. You would have been proud of it, as were we! :)

  3. jameshigham says:
    July 12, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    I think there’s a message in there for all of us.

  4. Claudia says:
    July 13, 2010 at 3:51 am

    I don’t have a green thumb. Actually, people are grateful if I just sit in the shade, and not touch their gardens! But I do admire and praise a gardener’s talent, hard work and creativity.

  5. Marta says:
    July 17, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    How true. I don’t get out in the garden much – fortunately my husband has a passion for it. A garden is never done.