Photo by Michael Spencer, shared via
Flickr.
This is what happens when an English teacher has a lack of books to review and a surplus of bruschetta to eat. Enjoy!
O king and lord of all the garden's fruit,
And harbinger of summer's golden days:
Without the benefit of harp and lute,
Thy lowly servant humbly sings thy praise.
To bubbling sauces thou dost bring rich life;
Or summer soups, sipped slowly by the pool.
Thy slices fall, slain warriors, by my knife;
In sandwiches, thou art the Golden Rule.
I dream of thee as winter's days stretch on
And blanket green with white, bleak mile by mile;
When every vestige of thy root is gone,
Thy scarlet lobes and crevices beguile.
But dreams of thee, like birds, must travel south;
Tomato, thou art happiest in my mouth.
Feeling poetic? Tell us how you feel about the arrival of fall, the end of summer, or whatever the seasons have brought you!
Photo courtesy the Royal Horticultural Society, copyright 2008.
We came across
this lovely garden inspired by
Where the Wild Things Are and thought it was inspired in the truest sense. Sendak frequently puts a great deal of care into the illustrations of plants, and since he's sort of the Joseph Conrad of children's literature (a self-confessed
misanthrope) he has managed to blend his sense of the dark jungle of the soul with something mystical, magical, and innocent that all children can relate to as a source of wonder - the moon. Landscape designer Tiggy Salt did well to emphasize this in her garden layout with a gorgeous leaf-shaped boat containing a whimsical crescent moon scuplture, as well as capitalizing on the very evocative transformation of Max's room into a jungle.
There is also a
series of photos Salt uploaded to Flickr outlining the construction of the garden. Not as gardener-centric as we'd like, but it does give you a sense of the steps involved in such a project.
We're giving away copies of Scholastic Video's wonderful collection of Sendak's animated adaptations on DVD, which includes
Where the Wild Things Are,
In the Night Kitchen, and the Nutshell Library series. For an entry in the giveaway, tell us what book - for children or adults - you'd like to see inspire a garden, one you could visit or one for your own backyard. If it already exists, tell us about it!
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