Beverly Nichols
Nov. 7th, 2005 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vgqnAn excerpt from a Beverly Nichols essay, on the joys of owning a garden:
"I still stand before a hedge with a pair of shears in my hand, saying 'I can clip this hedge exactly as I please. I can make it round or square or like a castle. If I choose, I can clip it away altogether, and nobody can arrest me.'"
He also compares the more distasteful tasks of gardening (e.g. hunting slugs) to babies: "If it is your own baby, you probably quite enjoy wiping its nose. If it is somebody else's you would have to use a long pole with a handkerchief on the end . . . at least I should."
I've had people recommend him and I've even picked up a book but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'm looking forward to it even more now.
And I really think I need to clip my rosemary bush into a castle.
"I still stand before a hedge with a pair of shears in my hand, saying 'I can clip this hedge exactly as I please. I can make it round or square or like a castle. If I choose, I can clip it away altogether, and nobody can arrest me.'"
He also compares the more distasteful tasks of gardening (e.g. hunting slugs) to babies: "If it is your own baby, you probably quite enjoy wiping its nose. If it is somebody else's you would have to use a long pole with a handkerchief on the end . . . at least I should."
I've had people recommend him and I've even picked up a book but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I'm looking forward to it even more now.
And I really think I need to clip my rosemary bush into a castle.
