Signs of Spring

If you walk through the blue gate, in to Trendle Ellwood's Lemurian Garden you will find that it is winter.
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But unlike the Selfish Giant's garden where spring never comes, in this Lemurian Garden spring bulbs are bravely pushing through the snow and beginning to bloom.

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Brave as You

Snowdrop, how dare you bloom so soon?
When most flowers wait till June?
What a joy you bring me.
As you pretend that it is spring.
How sweetly you lift up your white and green crowned head,
When all around you appears dead.
Oh Snowdrop could I be as brave as you?
And smile when all is cold and blue?


Trendle Ellwood March 2005