Pig’s Tail anthurium- Yes, that’s its actual color!
- Breadfruit almost ready for lunch
- It’s a happy tree
- A rare philodendron, called “Florida Beauty.”
- Purple agapanthus, a newbie in Siva’s Garden
- We just planted a patch very near Iraivan Temple
- Cup of Gold vine, amazing flowers
- Two days earlier it is thinking if there is anything outside.
- A wild orchid by the kitchen
- Black Coral calocasia, having a great first year in the garden.
- Paris japonica, an otherwise unamazing plant from Japan, has 150 billion DNA base pairs (we have 3.2 billion), so its code is 50 times bigger than a human! Something to ponder, no?
Siva’s Sacred Garden is a never-ending delight, like life itself. And it is never the same, changing from day to day, year to year. Today we invite you to join us on a walking tour to meet a few of the inhabitants. And in the last slide we offer some food for thought regarding your DNA.
Herewith, a fun poem by Rudyard Kipling. It has a playful tone, but also a quiet wisdom beneath it:
The Glory of the Garden
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:—“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade;
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.
There’s not a pair of legs so thin, there’s not a head so thick,
There’s not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick,
But it can find some needful job that’s crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.