Spring garden planted // anticipating new growth
Tomatoes, beans, and a grape vines on posts
Sunshine and summer rains // sitting in extreme heat
Produce fruits and vegetables with Zinnias so neat
Now bees and butterflies share the bounty
Beauty worth waiting for, seldom comes quickly
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Today at d’Verse, Victoria Sloto ask us to write a Quadrille of exactly 44 words using the word Garden. My little terraced garden is one thing that has kept me inspired during this time. So much beauty and nature is all around us. It brings me joy and a few tomatoes and green beans as well.
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Awesome poem – and the garden looks like it’s coming along nicely!
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Thank you. It has done very well this year. The green beans produced for a whole month and are still blooming. Tomatoes are wonderful!
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Nothing beats homegrown tomatoes.
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You are right about that!
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Beautifully penned, Dwight. Patience is important, especially as evinced by your lovely garden. ❤
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Thank you Lucy. Yes, this one was worth waiting for…
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Yes, gardening certainly teaches you patience. Your garden looks very fruitful.
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I am always anxious to get into it in the spring, long before I should. I am finally learning to wait and reaping the benefits. Thank you so much Sarah.
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Wow- Dwight- look at that wonderful garden! Looks like a bounty of tomatoes coming. I love your words, too- they are perfection.
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Thank you Linda! You are very kind!! This is one of the best garden years I have had since moving here. The tomatoes are wonderful as were the beans.
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looks and sounds like your garden is flourishing Dwight!
this is a real feast … 🙂
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Yes, I had some for my dinner this evening. I love it! Thanks Kate.
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nothing tastes better!
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Your are right!
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And well worth waiting for.
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Yes for sure! It is really growing! Thanks Ken.
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Your garden looks beautiful and bountiful for body and soul. It certainly does take patience–you can’t rush Mother Nature.
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And the benefits are worth the wait! Thank you Merril. It has been a very productive season.
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Great news, Dwight. Do you can/freeze your produce? That’s a nice treat to have in the winter.
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We have frozen a few bags of beans. We used to put away a lot of veggies in the freezer, but those days are past. We live in the moment, eat and enjoy!
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Gorgeous, gorgeous gorgeous 😀 both in words and image! 💝💝
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Thank you so much Sanaa. I really appreciate your kind words.
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That first photo is the clear winner for me! Our garden is being very generous in its harvest (so far!).
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My butterflies and zinnias are really beautiful this year. Thank you Liz. I like it as well. The bee also…
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Your gardens look flourishing and luscious! I don’t have the same fortune, love the poem!
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Thank you Mary. It is doing very well this year. Perhaps because I have given it more attention and water!!
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My wife only grows tomatoes, seven towers, quarts of love–apples. She gobbles them with such relish, I don’t know she avoids citric acid sores.
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Thank you for sharing Glenn!. I am down to only growing String Beans and Tomatoes. I understand your wife’s love for tomatoes. Il like my in BLT’s
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Nice quadrille. I especially like the rhyming pattern in this piece.
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Thank you so much for your comment!
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A wonderful garden and lovely poem Dwight,… and for me spring is around the corner… and I’m patiently waiting for planting season, … your last line is brilliant… and so poignant…
“Beauty worth waiting for, seldom comes quickly”
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Thank you Ivor. I think there is always something to learn from nature. I appreciate your kind words.
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Dwight, Love both the poem and the photos of your lovely garden! I especially like the photo of the bumblebee! Take care, Cheryl
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Thank you Cheryl!
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That first pic is so clear it looks real! Nice roma tomatoes. Is that mulch in your garden keeping weeds out or is that your soil? Amazingly well maintained. That takes work.
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I love my butterflies and bees.. They come around mid summer.
I found I like using Pine Straw for mulch. It does very well at keeping the weeds down and lets the air pass though in this hot climate.
Thank you Lisa!
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You’re welcome.
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The photos are amazing especially the sunflower. It takes a lot of love to nurture a garden. My tomatoes are ripening. I have been enjoying tomato sandwiches for lunch.
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Aren’t they just wonderful. I am down to raising only two things Tomatoes and Green Beans. It works for me. Thank you for stopping by Trudessa.
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Your garden looks so pretty and healthy. Zinnias grown by my dad in our garden were some of my childhoods favourite f memories, esp that pink colour your took picture of. I hadn’t seen them since growing up. Also sunflower, we had the small kind. Need to grow some now to provide childhood memories for my daughter.
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Thank you! Zinnias are wonderful. I save the seeds from year to year and watch the mutations that occur from cross pollination! They grow four or five feet tall!
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Wow! I never knew they grow so tall, the ones I had seen were about 2 feet. So interesting, you would have lots of varieties by now.
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I have a really nice mix of colors. The butterflies seem to like the deep oranges and reds and pinks.
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One thing about gardening–I’m not exactly patient and I’m tired of waiting for the tomatoes to turn green. I think you capture that sentiment in this. Nice to see you here, Dwight.
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Thank you Victoria. Glad to see you back again!
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Your garden looks fabulous, Dwight! With all my shady trees, I am envious of your beautiful vegetables and flowers. Lovely, descriptive poem that seems to grow along with your garden, blooming at the end.
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Thank you Mish. It is wonderful to have a sunny spot. Our last home of fifteen years had tall trees and lots of shade.. Not conducive for a garden.
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WOW !! Your pictures are amazing 😍 . Nice post it is 👌👍
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Thank you so much!
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After reading your poem I went to my garden and looked for vegetables . Then I found five brinjal 🍆🍆🙂
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What is a brinjal?? :>)
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It is eggplant . In India we call it as brinjal.
Just this 👉🍆🍆🍆👈
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I see! thank you for telling me.
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🙂🙂🙂🙂👍🏻👍🏻
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lovely poem & awesome garden
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Your garden treasure and your wonderful poem…a perfect pairing!
We love to garden, too. Good for the body, mind, heart, and soul! 🙂
Always a joy to see the bees and butterflies at work! 😉 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Thank you so much. We love eating out of the garden. We enjoy it for the summer and then go back to the store the rest of the years.
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Beautiful poetry and Delicious fruits! Dwight 🙂
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Thank you Jay! They are great!!
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Beauty worth waiting for, seldom comes quickly – that’s so true, and beautifully worded.
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Thank you so much Jina!
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Wonderful, Dwight. An excellent poem about and lovely garden in pictures and words.
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Thank you Bill!. It has done very well for me this year, since I have nothing better to do! It has gotten lots of weeding and watering!
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That was wonderful, Dwight. And your gardens are divine!
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Thank you! I am very happy with my little garden. It produces just enough to eat and share a little. I am amazed what can be produced in a small area.
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It’s amazing what we can do. Next year for sure
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I have a friend who has his garden in five gallon buckets across his back yard and it is doing very well!
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Too funny. I have a friend like that as well!
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Thank you!
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You have a bounty, Dwight! Love your poem and the photos!
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Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
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I especially love those tomatoes… hope you have had many sweet ones.
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They are very delicious! Nothing like fresh out of the garden! Thank you!
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It is so true that when you start your garden you just can’t wait for it to grow and start producing!
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A garden does grow at its own pace. Lovely poem, and you knocked me out with that photo of the sunflower, my favorite.
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It is a volunteer that just came up and today is just opening up. It is a short field sunflower rather than the big tall one. Thank you so much for reading and commenting Sara!
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Great post and photos, Dwight! I love what you are growing, and it is another way of being close to nature.
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I love tomatoes and flowers!! the rest is just extra! Thanks Peter for your comment!
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What a lovely little garden you tend…fresh tomatoes are the best! Thanks for sharing the photos too 🙂
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Thank you Lynn. It was a great year for gardening this year!
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Yes, here too!
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:>)
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Good post
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Thank you!
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Beautiful
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Thank you so much for reading so many of my posts!
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You’re very welcome! I saw a comment of yours on another person’s blog and recalled that I used to enjoy your poetry. For some reason I stopped seeing your posts or somehow unfollowed you!!! ThoughI don’t know how…. So I looked for your page and followed you and had a bit if a catch up! ❤😊
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Wonderful. I am glad you stopped by once more! We both have a lot to catch up on!
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Absolutely! Strange how that happened. I know other social media sites do occasionally remove followers. Usually if I notice someone’s missing from my regular feed I go looking for them. On this occasion it seems ages since your posts appeared and thankfully because of your recent comment on that post I also commented on the situation gas bern rectified 😊
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Glad we are back on track!
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Oh definitely!
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I love the pictures. The tomatoes are gorgeous. Kinda make me wanna have a garden, lol
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It is great to have your own vegetables straight out of the garden!
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