Flowers in Profusion - Tasha Tudor's Garden in June

"I don't make proper flower arrangements; mine just grow, like the garden."

—Tasha Tudor 

My Grandma H. introduced me to the magical world of Tasha Tudor.  She always admired her and it's easy to see why.   These gorgeous images by Robert Brown are from the book Tasha Tudor's Garden I've had in my library for a number of years and each time I open its pages I'm enchanted and inspired by her simply beautiful life.

                                                                               

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in the emporium:

English Cottage Gardening

Text and Photographs by Margaret Hensel

Foreword by Tasha Tudor

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Illustrations by Tasha Tudor

The Private World of Tasha Tudor

by Robert Brown (photographer)

and Tasha Tudor

The Tasha Tudor Cookbook:  

Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage

by Tasha Tudor

The Art of Tasha Tudor

by Harry Davis

Tasha Tudor's Garden

by Tovah Martin, photographed by Robert Brown

(all images this post from this book)

For a site devoted to all things Tasha Tudor,  
be sure to visit Natalie 
(Office Manager at Tasha Tudor and Family Inc.) 
at 
Rookery Ramblings

To go directly to information on touring 
Tasha Tudor's Cottage and Gardens, visit
Tasha Tudor and Family 

{Thank you Natalie for introducing yourself! ~L}

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Sunday and a new perspective...

The first flowers to grace the new island counter–peonies.  
I'm still in the midst of a bit of renovation mess and frustrated by delays and mishaps, but then today I happened to notice this still life comprised simply of these floral beauties, a stack of dinner plates waiting to be put away and the remains of our Sunday morning tradition–cappuccinos and chocolate croissants.  Just the few moments it took me to grab my camera and capture this transported me to another state of being far away from renovation woes and to-do lists.  —My own little island sanctuary you might say.  :)

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Peonies

This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready

to break my heart

as the sun rises, 

as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers

and they open —

pools of lace, 

white and pink —

and all day the black ants climb over them, 

boring their deep and mysterious holes

into the curls, 

craving the sweet sap, 

taking it away

to their dark, underground cities —

and all day

under the shifty wind, 

as in a dance to the great wedding, 

the flowers bend their bright bodies, 

and tip their fragrance to the air, 

and rise, 

their red stems holding

all that dampness and recklessness 

gladly and lightly, 

and there it is again — 

beauty the brave, the exemplary, 

blazing open. 

Do you love this world? 

Do you cherish your humble and silky life? 

Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? 

Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, 

and softly, 

and exclaiming of their dearness, 

fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, 

with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, 

their eagerness

to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are

nothing, forever?

~Mary Oliver

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