"Every day of the year there would be a posy to greet you on the kitchen table. Pushed at random into a little pot to suitable utensil, the posy would be there come rain or shine, and it was the reward of adventure, the fruit of labour or the chance happening of something one of her many birds had brought to the garden. In this posy were mapped the weeks of the year. A spring of Hamamelis and Galanthus in January, or a tuft of old man's beard and rosehips come autumn. Her posies were the garden distilled in a jam jar, and often she would pick a spring that you might admire from the assemblage and push into your hand as the making of a cutting. She shared her garden well, and to this day I try to keep a posy from my own garden"
Words - Dan Pearson from 'Natural Selection'
Illustration - Winifred Nicholson
Oh what a brilliant quotation, Anna, and the perfect picture to accompany it - was the picture in the book? A good advert for IAVOM! Thanks for sharing, Anna
ReplyDeleteThe illustration isn't in the book Cathy but one across when I was browsing. Fond thoughts of IAVOM came into my mind when I was writing it😂
DeleteThanks for sharing this gem...
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Noelle 😀
DeleteA lovely quote and illustration. I expect most of us do the same, but not in a jam jar.
ReplyDeleteThank you Chloris. I must confess to using the odd jam jar for flowers at times 😂
DeleteMy 'jam' jar had olives in - but it is such a pretty shape.
DeleteA wonderful quote, Anna - and the illustration couldn't be better.
ReplyDeleteOh thanks for your kind words Kris 😀
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty posy. Love that quote: '…the garden distilled in a jam jar'. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Cathy. The snippet that you quote says it all 😀
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