Vintage Style Garden Design Wall Calendar

Vintage Style Kitchen Garden Wall Calendar

This vintage style Kitchen Garden wall poster will not only look gorgeous on your wall but is a very practical guide to getting started in your vegetable garden. Don’t know what to plant where and when? Check the plan for the current year and follow the guidelines for the current seasons.

Shows a 4 year crop rotation cycle to encourage healthy gardens and long term sustainable gardening for us and the earth. A beautiful and useful gift for gardeners everywhere whether you are experienced or a beginner

Special online offer. Regular price is $16.10 + p&p per poster but if you buy online it is 2 for $19.90 + P&P of $6.75. Buy one for yourself and one to give away to a young gardener! You can either email me with your order on keren@professionalcountrywoman.com

Thursday 2 January 2014

The Summer Palace - Michael Leunig

Here is a poignant and suitably garden-wise poem to mark the passing of one year and the beginning of the New.  I love Leunig's work and this one is my favourite.  None of us are exempt from difficult events and experiences but what a great lesson in resilience and hope from the garden - allow those things to die and turn them into something that is productive and hopeful. Here's to a great Summer Palace.    
THE SUMMER PALACE
Make a little garden in your pocket,

Fill your cuffs with radishes and rocket,

Let a passionfruit crawl up your thigh,

Grow some oregano in your fly.


Make a steamy compost of your fears,

Trickle irrigate your life with tears,

Let your troubled mind become a trellis,



Turn your heart into a summer palace



(Used with permission: For his other work go to  http://www.leunig.com.au/)
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Anonymous said...

I really love this poem. Every time I am reminded of it it makes me smile. Leunig has an amazing way of handing us life on a plate in a most beautiful and poignant way. Cheers for sharing it with us all :)

2 January 2014 at 22:34

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