Gardening with a Wild Heart

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Judith Larner Lowry. Gardening with a Wild Heart

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with a Wild Heart

RESTORING

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Gardening can be an anxious pastime, as the demands of weeding, watering, fertilizing, and pruning accrue. I have never experienced such peaceful gardening moments as when we planned for next year's “music bush”harvest. “Cut here,” said Bun, “and cut here.”

Now that Bun is gone, the bushes don't look the same. Some native peoples say that plants not honored by being used become sad and don't flourish. No one attends this tree anymore to make gambling pieces out of the twigs or to carve parts of the limbs into beautiful clapper sticks and whistles, so that music can be made.

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