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Bed Clean Up and Creation

This back yard garden bed was full of Ivy, Vinca Vine and weeds. It took a week to dig it all out. We have edged the beds, added black and white newspaper and covered the bed with Parkfairfax’s famous “ground mulch.”  A. Alexander, Director of Operations recommended this homemade mulch. Our bed looks clean and ready for NEW plantings. We are going to add one dwarf tree, an Eastern Redbud, and a few select perennials. It’s looking lovely with the new fence. A completed project for this week. Our twenty year homeowner is quite pleased. Accomplishment!!!

God’s Garden

THE Lord God planted a garden

In the first white days of the world,

And He set there an angel warden

In a garment of light enfurled.

So near to the peace of Heaven,

That the hawk might nest with the wren,

For there in the cool of the even

God walked with the first of men.

And I dream that these garden-closes

With their shade and their sun-flecked sod

And their lilies and bowers of roses,

Were laid by the hand of God.

The kiss of the sun for pardon,

The song of the birds for mirth,–

One is nearer God’s heart in a garden

Than anywhere else on earth.

For He broke it for us in a garden

Under the olive-trees

Where the angel of strength was the warden

And the soul of the world found ease.

Dorothy Frances Gurney