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Gardens Inspire My Writing
Gardens are eye chocolate and inspirational caffeine for my writing heart. I tend my own garden mostly for the sake of the inspirational beauty it provides around my home. Beauty inspires, calms, and fills me with joy. If I were given a choice between going on a shopping trip or a garden tour, I’d pick the tour every time. And if I had to choose between a vegetable garden and a flower garden, I’d pick a flower garden because I’d rather starve my body than my soul.
Cottage gardens are my favorite style because you can grow both food and flowers together, and I also love quaint little old character houses surrounded by mature perennials, shrubs, trees, and all things floral.
My imagination and cozy factor get fired up when I peek over the fence of an old-timer property rich with history and charm. I find myself wondering who first loved this home and what the owner’s life was like.
Time in a garden fills my inkwell to the brim. How do gardens inspire you? What’s your favorite kind of garden?
In the Garden
In the garden I like to go
For a break from daily chores
To dream of places far away
Of flowers grown on foreign shores
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In the garden I like to escape
Into a land of make believe
And pretend I’m a princess in distress
Waiting for my Knight of relief
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In the garden I like to be
Away from the hustle and bustle of life
As just a writer on her knees
Planting and growing stories to write.
Wendy/ 2016
About the Author:
Wendy L. Macdonald is a Canadian, inspirational writer/blogger who also loves to photograph nature. When she’s not writing, drawing, or gardening, she enjoys hiking in the beautiful parks of the Comox Valley with her husband of 32 years. She homeschooled her children and believes all those years of reading aloud helped develop her love of storytelling and writing. Wendy invites you to visit her blog where you will find nature photography, memoir style posts, and links to her” Daily Bread” style Facebook page etc. at www.wendylmacdonald.com
Catherine Castle 
Thank you, dear Catherine, for allowing me to share my post with your readers. One of the things I love to do in the summer is to read books while I’m sunning in my garden. I wanted to surprise you and so I secretly read your novel “The Nun and the Narc” and enjoyed it while birds, butterflies, and dragonflies flew past me. My review is on Amazon.ca and Goodreads–well done writing. 🙂
Blessings ~ Wendy
Wendy, what a sweet surprise. I’m glad you liked the book. I’ll pop over and read your review. The pleasure is all mine when you visit.
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Wendy I like gardens – but being a city boy – I bow to my wife’s love of nature – I can however appreciate your reference to what triggers memories and the past – I too lapse into nostalgia/dreaming perhaps triggered by a different stimuli – nice post.
Thank you, Ken. I’m sure your wife appreciates the freedom you allow her to garden as she wishes. My husband helps me with the heavy work, but “bows” to my garden design aspirations. 🙂 Thankfully we share a love of the casual cottage style.
Lovely, Wendy!
Thank you, Jennifer. Our garden is getting watered via the sky today. 🙂
I just love this, Wendy. What a balm for garden lovers. (And I see your neighbour’s wisteria bloomed – unlike my stubborn one….) I really like the last two lines of your poem, too.
Thank you, dear Cynthia. I hope you won’t hate me when I tell you that’s one of my wisterias. I don’t deserve it as I’m a neglectful pruner. 🙂 But it’s a faithful bloomer anyways.
That’s YOUR wisteria? My eyes are brown but right now they are GREEN with envy. You awful person you! You never told me you have a wisteria that BLOOMS! Tee hee — congrats on your green thumbs.
Giggle. It blooms despite my neglect of it. And it’s a monster in that it wants to cover our entire property. Not. Allowed. 🙂
Maybe I paid ours too much attention! Yikes. I know about its vigorous ways of wanting to cover and strange everything, too.
Wendy I can tell the garden is your inspiration to write and take amazing photographs. Simply beautiful and thank you for sharing your creative world.