Garden Song
Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow.
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground.
Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless the seeds I sow.
Someone warm them from below, 'til the rain comes tumbling down.
Pulling weeds and picking stones, man is made of dreams and bones.
Feel the need to grow my own 'cause the time is close at hand.
Grain for grain, sun and rain, find my way in nature's chain,
to my body and my brain to the music from the land.
Plant your rows straight and long, thicker than with prayer and song.
Mother Earth will make you strong if you give her love and care.
Old crow watching hungrily, from his perch in yonder tree.
In my garden I'm as free as that feathered thief up there.
Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow.
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground.
Inch by inch, row by row, Someone bless the seeds I sow.
Someone warm them from below, 'til the rain comes tumbling down.
John Denver
This Victorian cottage garden delights visitors daily at New Jersey’s
Hereford Inlet Lighthouse. At the southeast corner of
the Jersey shore, in the
picturesque community of North Wildwood, NJ
The lighthouse grounds display
the gardening genius of designer
and caretaker Steve Murray.
Steve designed the lighthouse gardens in 1986 and now spends volunteer
hours tending his creation. The plot’s care precludes
chemicals. “The caterpillar
munching on parsley in June may be the black swallowtail we look forward
to seeing later,” he
says.
Today, the not-quite-1-acre
lot features “little garden
rooms separated by plants, shrubs, and trees, where people can stroll
around and turn a corner
to discover what comes next,”
Steve says. Hedges fence in the fragrant herb garden, which brims with lavender,
rosemary, scented geraniums, and pineapple sage. Japanese
black pines stand guard with
indigenous shrubs such as bayberry, beach plus, and viburnum.
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