Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 Dear Mazie, thanks for your post that was such a joy to read. It is wonderful to hear about your animals and your garden; I also share your admiration for the humble weeds that are some of God's miniature masterpieces. As you know, Paramahansa Yogananda loved nature very much; he also said that higher animals can profit greatly spiritually through the company of loving humans. I am sure he would be so glad to know that you are living these ideals. Love, Michael > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: mazie_l [sraddha54] > Gesendet: Thursday, January 24, 2002 18:58 > An: > Betreff: Gift Gardens > > > Dear Friends, > > Last year I began the groundwork for a garden to provide food and > flowers for family, friends, and neighbors. The idea was to plant > enough for everyone, including the local elderly care homes and those > under hospice care. We named the garden "Gorakhpur Gardens" in honor > of Paramahansa Yogananda's birthplace, and in honor of Sri > Gorakhnath. I found a program called "America the Beautiful Fund" > which provides last year's seeds for a great discount and in a large > volume. Having been the recipient of gifts of rakes, hoes, shovels, > hoses, and numerous other gardening tools and implements, we are now > ready to begin the first planting this spring. For those who are > interested in doing something similar, information can be found about > this program at http://www.freeseeds.org/ and for those who would > like to read about the program and how children can be actively > involved, go to http://www.kidsgardening.com/school/freeseeds.html > > I just read something that said that "Go" means 'earth' in Sanskrit, > and "Rakh" means 'to protect.' How fine that it fits so perfectly > with the goals of this garden. I was very lucky growing up and always > having a family garden to work and play in. I recall many summer > nights sitting in a circle with my family around a big tub filled > with corn or green beans, everyone filled with happiness and > contentment to be sharing in all aspects of the growing, harvesting, > and preparing of the garden. Having the garden at my disposal > certainly helped me maintain my retinue of cows, horses, and goats > gathering eagerly around me. Later, to finance my trips to LA, I grew > and prepared tray gardens and beginning bonsai for sales I held in my > gardens on forestview Drive. Are they called what, sekkei? I've > forgotten. We had a large greenhouse then also that I grew beautiful, > fragrant orchids. Angraecum Sesquipedale was a light lime green > flower with a night-blooming fragrance that utterly sent me. Right > now, I am eagerly awaiting the blossoming of eight unknown colored > Cymbidium orchid buds. We are also planning on putting in fruit and > nut trees this year. Pear and plums were here when I moved in, but > with ten acres we have land so ready for fruits to blossom and fruit. > I understand so well the peace and joy from gardening. In the Spring > it is all I can do to not sleep in the gardens with the jasmine and > grapevines every night. There is an old grape arbor that we are > gradually turning into a meditation sanctuary. A small pool, a wooden > bench, an old iron gate, a statue of Buddha and Jesus, and tiny > violets cover the floor. All this talk makes me want to run out and > start tending to the friends. > > Last year I enjoyed so many of the beautiful 'weeds' around the land > here that I have decided to build and maintain a 'weed' garden in a > part of the yard. Truly, weeds are the most misunderstood beauty in > the garden. Purple thistles, wild morning-glory, pigweed, lambs ear, > horehound, burdock, even the giant purple and green milkweed is > stunning with its tiny golden-cropped head of blooms. So this year I > think I'll let them stand as an example of weed beauty. Had some > people found any of these plants in a nursery and not known they were > weeds, they might have bought them. > > Love, > Mazie > > > > /join > > > > > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, > sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and > exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves > rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from > Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come > and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart > Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A > true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, > spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to > a. > > > > Your use of is subject to > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 Hello Mazie, Thank you for your wonderful story and your garden... Sounds like a lovely thing to do... I agree with your weeds, I used to argue with my husband to let the dandelions stay in our yard, they were always so pretty in early spring.... LOL... but he got his way, and while I cant enjoy the dandelions anymore, I do enjoy the deep green grass instead... I can always walk to my neighbors yard to see the dandelions.. Speaking of gardens, I visited the garden shop today, and it has been so warm here this winter, they actually had flowers blooming out back, and the goldfish pond was as active as if it was summer time.... Well, gonna run, this was probably my last post for a while... Everyone enjoy your Valentines Day.... Love, Lynette > > Last year I enjoyed so many of the beautiful 'weeds' around the land > here that I have decided to build and maintain a 'weed' garden in a > part of the yard. Truly, weeds are the most misunderstood beauty in > the garden. Purple thistles, wild morning-glory, pigweed, lambs ear, > horehound, burdock, even the giant purple and green milkweed is > stunning with its tiny golden-cropped head of blooms. So this year I > think I'll let them stand as an example of weed beauty. Had some > people found any of these plants in a nursery and not known they were > weeds, they might have bought them. > > Love, > Mazie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 24, 2002 Report Share Posted January 24, 2002 > Last year I enjoyed so many of the beautiful 'weeds' around the land > here that I have decided to build and maintain a 'weed' garden in a > part of the yard. Truly, weeds are the most misunderstood beauty in > the garden. Purple thistles, wild morning-glory, pigweed, lambs ear, > horehound, burdock, even the giant purple and green milkweed is > stunning with its tiny golden-cropped head of blooms. So this year I > think I'll let them stand as an example of weed beauty. Had some > people found any of these plants in a nursery and not known they were > weeds, they might have bought them. > > Love, > Mazie Dear Mazie: You have a very wonderful gift for creating images with words. You took me back to summer and sun and weeds. On a trip to Utah I happened on a beautiful sight up in the Manti LaSalle Mountains ouside Moab. Driving down a dirt road I saw some flowers peeking over a ridge high up a steep incline. Thinking there might be something to paint, and that is my reason to be, I managed to get up there. I found I was in a natural weed garden. It was filled with hundreds of flowers, maybe fifteen varieties, spotted around among the red rocks and dirt patches. There were various shrubs and bluish to green and yellow foliage. Two trees had pale violet leaves and white trunks. Bright red bells, yellow stars, and orange paintbrushes were backlit (oh I forgot to say it was just at sunrise and the sun came over the peaks in the distance as I watched). Even the remaining stalks of past glory were incredible with the light coming through. I surmised the cows must have planted it so beautifully with their pilgramages up the mountains. I went back as often as I could. I even got buzzed by hummingbirds one morning. Last year it became a large pastel and I added enough different types of "weeds" to make about 30 flowering varieties in all. I have almost finished a large oil (48"x54") of the same scene with another twenty varieties. I believe the pastel is one of the ones I sent to to Gloria for the magazine. Since then my hard drive crashed and I lost all my files so I can't post it now. You made me want a garden. Love Bobby G. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2002 Report Share Posted January 25, 2002 > Message: 1 > Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:57:41 -0000 > "mazie_l" <sraddha54 > Gift Gardens > > Dear Friends, > > Last year I began the groundwork for a garden to provide food and > flowers for family, friends, and neighbors. The idea was to plant > enough for everyone, including the local elderly care homes and those > under hospice care. We named the garden "Gorakhpur Gardens" in honor > of Paramahansa Yogananda's birthplace, and in honor of Sri > Gorakhnath. I found a program called "America the Beautiful Fund" > which provides last year's seeds for a great discount and in a large > volume. Having been the recipient of gifts of rakes, hoes, shovels, > hoses, and numerous other gardening tools and implements, we are now > ready to begin the first planting this spring. For those who are > interested in doing something similar, information can be found about > this program at http://www.freeseeds.org/ and for those who would > like to read about the program and how children can be actively > involved, go to http://www.kidsgardening.com/school/freeseeds.html > > I just read something that said that "Go" means 'earth' in Sanskrit, > and "Rakh" means 'to protect.' How fine that it fits so perfectly > with the goals of this garden. I was very lucky growing up and always > having a family garden to work and play in. I recall many summer > nights sitting in a circle with my family around a big tub filled > with corn or green beans, everyone filled with happiness and > contentment to be sharing in all aspects of the growing, harvesting, > and preparing of the garden. Having the garden at my disposal > certainly helped me maintain my retinue of cows, horses, and goats > gathering eagerly around me. Later, to finance my trips to LA, I grew > and prepared tray gardens and beginning bonsai for sales I held in my > gardens on forestview Drive. Are they called what, sekkei? I've > forgotten. We had a large greenhouse then also that I grew beautiful, > fragrant orchids. Angraecum Sesquipedale was a light lime green > flower with a night-blooming fragrance that utterly sent me. Right > now, I am eagerly awaiting the blossoming of eight unknown colored > Cymbidium orchid buds. We are also planning on putting in fruit and > nut trees this year. Pear and plums were here when I moved in, but > with ten acres we have land so ready for fruits to blossom and fruit. > I understand so well the peace and joy from gardening. In the Spring > it is all I can do to not sleep in the gardens with the jasmine and > grapevines every night. There is an old grape arbor that we are > gradually turning into a meditation sanctuary. A small pool, a wooden > bench, an old iron gate, a statue of Buddha and Jesus, and tiny > violets cover the floor. All this talk makes me want to run out and > start tending to the friends. > > Last year I enjoyed so many of the beautiful 'weeds' around the land > here that I have decided to build and maintain a 'weed' garden in a > part of the yard. Truly, weeds are the most misunderstood beauty in > the garden. Purple thistles, wild morning-glory, pigweed, lambs ear, > horehound, burdock, even the giant purple and green milkweed is > stunning with its tiny golden-cropped head of blooms. So this year I > think I'll let them stand as an example of weed beauty. Had some > people found any of these plants in a nursery and not known they were > weeds, they might have bought them. > > Love, > Mazie loved your post, mazie. something about weeds. i wrote this a while back: There was that old weedy lot up around 28th St. and 16th Ave. in Paterson. One corner of it was taken up by an auto repair place that souped-up '57 Chevies and the like. One spring day a few of us kids were standing in the weeds and someone said, "See if you can find the turtle." The kids went on talking about something else, but I went walking through the weeds. I didn't go far when, right at my feet, horseweed and dandelions, a low mound of earth moved. It was big, like one of those turtles you might see floating in a glass jar at the museum. I didn't say a word to the other kids. Never did. I needed to keep it to myself because it was like a discovery I couldn't explain anyway. After all these years, I still make a point of walking through weeds. Along railroad tracks. Ragweed and milkweed. Empty lots. The good people who don't cut their lawns, and have a rusted car sitting out front. I might tell some people the story and that it's kind of a ritual what I do. But since you've come this far, I'll tell you that when I walk through weeds, I really am looking for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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