Plain Janes In Wisconsin's Gramma Garden Win Review

A Gramma Garden's Review Spotlights Plain Janes

What a splendid greeting this morning.  Thinking of God's great gifts of beauty I grabbed my camera and started shooting pictures.  I chose this one with the tree accenting the mornings dawn as I started my blog.

The dark outline of the tree accents the view, making it more prominent of the other snapshots I took.

     Later in the day I again took my camera out in my morning walk and noticed so many plain Janes in the flowerbeds reminding me of how they also were accenting the center peace.

 This view on my walk, I gazed down at the lower gardens.  The flowers mazed together to accent the birdhouses and tall green trees in background.  It dawned on me how I as a plain Jane accent many things in my life.  I am but an instrument in the orchestrating designs of my gardens.  Inspiration sets the ideas into place.

     I met a little old lady many years ago who lived out in the country.  Her husband was dying and a nun who I worked part time after high school classes,  sent me and another girl out to bring them supper.  We drove up to her plain country home and parked next to this magnificent bluer of color, all shapes and sizes.  It was a garden I will never forget and have fashioned my own gardens likewise.

As a Master Gardner for 26 years I tried really hard to form gardens according to the laws of a perfect perennial garden but for some reason they always turned out to copy the little old lady's garden from so long ago.  One year a reporter for our local paper came out to interview me and take pictures and I was trying to apologize for the messy look and she exclaimed, "  I love this garden, I never saw a garden like this"  Her heading for her article stated, "Kathy will drive you near wild."  and so I found a name for my kind of garden and quit apologizing for the messy look.  :)  

Up closer the blur takes on shapes and sized but the birdhouses

still promenade the setting and take the attention from this distance. 

Here the Monarda start to take my attention, the lilies stand out, birdhouse starting to fade into background.  

Pink yarrow accent the pink lilies that accent the dark red clematis.  One
giving up its prominence to let the other out show itself.  Chickens in
background are hardly noticed at all.

   Here the lilies steal the show!  The white yarrow accents and softens the view.  We need to have a background to have the center peace stand out.  The greens blend the whole picture background.  

     In life I often am just the background, others have the lime lite.  Pride won't step back to let this happen, causing havoc in a once serene setting.  I have learnt humility lets the world progress ahead.  Joining the group to emphasise a needed spotlight. not necessarily mine but ours is better.

Phlox steal the show from the Monardas that were the main point on above
picture showing the Monardas by the trellis.

Sometimes my camera just takes pictures of the Stars of the show.  Lilies both the daylilies and Ornamental Lilies just have to have the limelight!  Their beauty just is outstanding.  Often Daylilies only last one day and the flower fades, loosing all its beauty.  

See in this picture the faded bloom in background.  Needs to be picked off.
Its showtime is past, short lived.

In Life it seems our limelight is short lived and then we are back to the basics.  Building on a foundation that will last.  Our strong point often being just part of the group.  Adding to the picture or accenting another life we share.

Here a group is made of Daises and purple Gayfeather.  They 

share the setting with a trellis and have lots of green as background.

All equal, all doing their job of making this little spot heavenly.  :)

Had to just say that!  But isn't it just like heaven's peace

when we work together, making this beautiful world livable.

                                         There will be times when we are in the spotlight and then

                                   there times we are just holding up our end to make a lovely setting.

Perhaps it is not our time to be in the limelight, just part of the group, adding to the picture

filling a spot that gives strength to the sight as these hostas blessing each other in the 

large rock garden.

God's time is not always our time.
He often holds us back on the
sidelines until it is our time
to
Shine

The stage is set, we have our part
in this beautiful world.
Trust Him who loves you.



Kate