Garden Bloggers’ Muse Day – September/October 2011

I owe you one. One muse day that is. As I post my October 1st muse, I post my belated September muse as well.

The month of September, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady”…

September was the seventh month of the Roman calendar, but is the ninth according to our reckoning. The Anglo-Saxons called it ‘gertst-mnath,’ – Barley month.

And from the collection of poetry Ms. Holden has been kind enough to share with us…

While ripening corn grew thick and deep,
And here and there men stood to reap,
One morn I put my heart to sleep,
And to the meadows took my way.

The goldfinch on a thistle-head
Stood scattering seedlets as she fed,
The wrens their pretty gossips spread,
Or joined a random roundelay.

Author: Jean Ingelow

The month of October, per Edith Holden’s “Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady”…

The eighth month of the old Roman year. By the Slavs this is called ‘Yellow month,’ from the fading of the leaf; to the Anglo-Saxons, it was known as Winter fylleth, because at this moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin.

And from the collection of poetry Ms. Holden has been kind enough to share with us, I offer you this motto.  With it, you’ll note that our generation is not the inventor of sustainable gardening…

In October dung your field
And your land it’s wealth shall yield.

Whereforth cometh the inspiration to wax poetic? Garden Bloggers’ Muse Day, where Carolyn Choi of Sweet Home and Garden Chicago has invited bloggers to share our favorite poems, songs, verses and quotes about gardening on the first of the month. Carolyn is leaving Chicagoland and her blog to follow her heart to North Carolina. Thanks to Carolyn for her inspiration.

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