They say if you don’t love music, children and flowers, you are capable of cold blooded murder. I wonder how one can not love flowers! Don Maclean in his iconic song Vincent had sung “The lovers cried and the poets dreamed”---flowers are for poets and lovers and dreamers. The garden is where Nature is at its best. The Romantic poets talked of Nature and how the wild landscape was being tamed for order, another representation of propriety and decorum. Nature cannot be tamed. It’s where the epicentre of life is throbbing; amidst those pretty flowers and leaves. Wordsworth believed that it was Nature that taught him values and morals about life. Today in this day and age of the hustling and bustling city life and crowded spaces, most gardens are all but lost. But one must make some space for Nature into their lives, especially children. Because being with nature and being close to it is as imperative for the growth f a child as fairy tales are. They open up the imagination creating the ability to discover and learn and feel it to be a core part of Creation.
