A compilations of A Return To Loveliness posts from A Delight Life.



Gardening Has Us

By The Heart


April is the enchanted month, no matter where you are 
– miracles begin in the garden.


“Spring has come once more…lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chill days, with pink sunsets and piracles of resurrection and growth”.
L.M. Montgomery “Anne of Green Gables”


Early in the morning and late at night, the blend of  the fragrances from the Mock Orange, Roses, Snapdragons, Iris, 
Violets and more blend to an intoxicating scent. 
You cannot seem to breath deep enough to take in its nectar.


The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.  ~Hanna Rion


The sweetness of the morning is enhanced by the chorus of song 
from the birds – the activity of life – of a day beginning anew.


In a story about Ellen McClelland Lesser in the 1995 issue of Victoria magazine, Ellen is quoted as saying, ‘love is only the beginning’. Even though we are ‘smitten by the prospect of creating a wonderful garden, it takes hours of hard work and lots of patience to make one come to life. For many gardeners, their toil takes place in private” Nancy Lindemeyer.


In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.  ~Abram L. Urban


Gardening is an ever-changing ongoing process that reaps bountiful rewards. I am constantly in awe by the first bud of  a rose or a peony – by the immergence of a volunteer flower – seeds from beloved blossoms seasons past.


Spring has come once more –
What a marvelous blessing from God.