Winter quotes and poetry

April Poetry

"And Spring

arose on the

garden fair,

Like the Spirit of 

Love felt 

everywhere;

And each flower

and herb on

Earth's dark 

breast

rose from the 

dreams of its 

wintry rest

Percy Byshee Shelley

The Sensitive Plant

"A violet in the

youth of primy

nature,

Forward, not 

permanent,

sweet,not

lasting,

The perfume and

suppliance of a 

minute."

William Shakespeare

"When the time is

ripe for certain 

things, 

these things 

appear in

different places

in the manner 

of violets coming

to light in the

early spring."

Farkas Bolyai 

"April hath put a

spirit of youth in 

everything."

William Shapeskeare

Early Spring Lines

"I heard a thousand blended notes,

While in a grove I sate reclined,

In that sweet mood when pleasant

thoughts 

Bring sad thoughts to the mind."

        "Through primrose tufts, 

             in that green bower,

The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;

And 'tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air that it breathes."

William Wordsworth

International Womens 

Day poetry

"Women are the mammoth 

reservoir of power and talent 

which has yet

not been tapped."

"Empower woman,

empower the human 

community. The base 

on which the world stands

is a woman."

"A woman is one who

walks on her own footsteps

rather than following 

the direction shown by the crowd."

"Love yourself first and 

everything else falls into 

line.

You really have to love yourself

to get anything done in 

this world."

Lucille Ball 

"A woman is like a tea bag

- you never know how 

strong she is until she 

gets it hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

I hope you enjoy my poetry.

March poetry 

"The air is like a 

butterfly 

With frail blue

wings.

The happy earth 

looks at the sky

And sings."

Joyce Kilmer,

Spring

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"The sun is 

brilliant in the sky

but its warmth

does not reach 

my face.

The breeze stirs

the trees but

leaves my hair

unmoved.

The cooling rain

will feed the

grass but will not

slake my thirst. 

It is all inches 

away but further

from me than my 

dreams."

M. Romeo

LaFlamme, The 

First of March

"I wandered 

lonely as a cloud

That floats on

high o'er vales 

and hills,

When at all once

I saw a crowd,

A host of golden

daffodils;

Beside the lake,

beneath the

trees, 

Fluttering and 

dancing in the 

breeze."

William Wordsworth

Daffodils

"All nature seems at work.

Slugs leave their 

lair

The bees are 

stirring, birds are 

on the wing,

And Winter 

slumbering in the 

open air,

Wears on his smiling face

a dream of spring."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"You ask me why

I dwell in the

green mountain;

I smile and make

no reply for my 

heart is free of care.

As the peach-

blossom flows

down stream

and is gone into the

unknown,

I have a world

apart that is not

among men."

Li Bai 

February poetry 

by Mike Garofalo

Circled round by 

snowcapped peaks - 

white blossoms.

Awakening, 

I hear the truth -

gray rain on clay.

Daily rain -

from the deep well 

this glass of water.

Dark trees 

darker clouds -

rain on my glasses.

The pavement 

ended, 

a dirt road began -

stopping in the rain.

Old figs

unpruned,

abandoned -

peacocks home.

Other poets 

"Winter is the time for comfort,

for good food 

and warmth,for

the touch of a 

friendly hand and 

for a talk beside the fire: it is the 

time for home."

Edith Sitwell

"Keep your faith 

in beautiful 

things;

in the sun when it

is hidden, 

in the Spring

when it is gone.

Roy R Gibson

"The flowers of

late winter and

early spring

occupy places in 

our hearts well

out of proportion 

to their size."

Gertrude S. Wister

"Was it the smile

of early spring

That made me

bosom glow?

'Twas sweet, but

neither sun nor

wind 

Could raise my 

spirit so.

Was it some

feeling of delight,

All vague and

undefined?

No 'twas a 

rapture deep and

strong,

Expanding in the 

mind!"

Anne Bronte,

In Memory of A Happy Day 

in Februry

"Winter came

down to our 

home one night

Quietly

pirouetting in on

silvery-toed

slippers of snow,

And we, we were

children once

again."

"Why, what's the 

matter

That you have 

such a February 

face,

So full of frost, of

storm and

cloudiness?"

William Shakespeare,

 Much Ado About
Nothing

January Gardening quotes 

The leaves hop, scraping on the ground.

It is January. The sky is hard.

The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in this solitude, a syllable,

Out of these gawky flitterings,

Intones its single emptiness,

The savagest hollow of winter sound.

Wallace Stevens

You'd be so lean, that blasts of January

Would blow you through and through.

William Shakespeare 

"Here's to thee,

old apple tree

Whence thou

mayest bud

Whence thou

mayest bear

apples enow."

Wassailing Songs

"To read a poem 

in January is as 

lovely as to go

for a walk in 

June."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"It is deep January.

The sky is hard.

The stalks are firmly rooted

in ice."

Wallace Stevens

Hope you all enjoyed this month's poetry. 

Please keep reading with me. 

January 2019 - A new beginning

A very happy New Year in 2019 

to you all.

Thanks to all my followers.

Please keep reading. 

Peto Garden, Wiltshire

Well here we are again, 

at the start 
of another year. 



But we always like to look 

back to what we did.



2018 
You will recall that this summer 

was fabulously hot.

The best thing for me was 

feeling happy 

and caring for lots of even 
happier plants most of the time.

In the summer I had the 

privilege of visiting
 a gem of a garden 

in Wiltshire. 


I would like to share 

this place with you. 


Peto Gardens is quite an achievement 
as it is in a valley 
and it is built up on layers
 of terraces and amazing vistas.  

Peto Gardens from the
 middle looking downwards

It makes you feel like you are 

transported to somewhere
 no-one else knows about. 

Sadly it was not a nice 

summer day to take pictures
 but hopefully you can get 

a good idea of 

what it looks like. 

One of the fabulous
vistas at Peto Gardens

Plants that flower in January 

So back to our New Year and 

what you can grow
 happily even in a cold climate.

Helleborus niger 

Let me share with you one 

of my favourite flowers. 

It is so dainty and beautiful.

Better still it is really easy 

to care for. 

Spring flowering
hellebores





It was the 28th of March 2018
when I visited the beautiful 
landscaped Swiss Garden
 in Bedfordshire.


It was spring time and the rain
was pouring down! 


So looking at plants in the rain with
 a huge umbrella was a bit of a challenge.

Trying to photograph these
beauties was a bit tricky.







Plant of the week
5th January 2019


Hellebores are winter flowering
 plants. I grow them in pots.


They look lovely in a cluster,
in a woodland setting.

My advise to you is go to a good
garden centre and pick the
best looking flowering
plants.


Check the leaves for bugs
and make sure they look
healthy and green.

Bring it home and enjoy
it every day. 

 These hellebores are so
varied in colour. 

Fabulous deepest purple.

Contrasting hellebores
and daffodils 

Care for hellebores
Hellebores will be happy 

in pots but do be aware 

of seasonal bugs. 

I get them on mine and remove

 them with my fingers.

Keep them watered 

or they will dry out.



Please keep following me.
Apologies for my absence 

but I promise

 I will be updating soon.

It's Monday 7th January 2019 

and the start of a new week. 

Time to take in what is around you. 

Sometimes we are too busy 
not looking around us and
 seeing what beauty there

 is in nature. 



Trees are such an important 

part of nature so try to stop for 

a minute and look up at them.

Bamboo makes a statement




I love the way bamboo creates
such a cool effect to any beautifully
crafted garden.

Black bamboos are something 

special as they feel

 a bit mysterious with their 

black stems.

It's elegance is something that 
is very eye-catching.

See the way the glass
reflects the light here.


A small building in the middle
 of this fabulous Garden.

January flowers 

 Brightens up your 

dark January day.

Clematis 'Jungle Bells'


This year this plant is somewhat 

confused after the long hot summer 

which actually scorched the whole
plant. 


As a result it flowered early and it has
 very few flowers now.



A real winter beauty here below.

Christmas box with
the sweetest scent



Late flowering this year
so hopefully
 it will be out soon. 



So at long last the flowers 
are coming out. 


Such a fabulous
scent they have.

Should be flowering 

at the end of the year, 

in December. 

Still at the end of January 

it has a few flowers.

It really packs a punch 

this beauty with
the most fabulous scent. 

Snowdrops bring
us cheer


We all need something
to lif tour moods in January.

  

There's nothing better 

than a clump of dainty 

snowdrops to 

lift our spirits this month. 

Snowdrops are bulbs 

so it's too late 
to plant them in January, 

but if you have 

none why not enjoy looking 

at them in a wood near you. 

Clematis care
in January



Be mindful of your delicate
plants at this time of the year. 

When the white stuff 

falls from the skies it 

lands heavily on our poor 

plants, treat them carefully.

Brush it off gently and 

make sure you don't damage 

the leaves and flowers 
right now. 


If you can protect them with 

horticultural fleece 
that will be really good.