KM Anniversary #3 Planting ~ Cedar Grove & Tunnel

Since our marriage-celebration-year, 2012, we’ve marked the passage of our married life together with an annual anniversary planting. This year we chose to reclaim (from the wilderness) the Cedar Grove and Tunnel shade area. On Saturday, Karl weeded one third of the area under the Cedar Trees, and tilled a new arc in front, where I planted fifty muscari (grape hyacinth) bulbs. At the Koi Pond, I also planted twenty bulbs (festival hyacinth and muscari ‘golden fragrance’).

This week, we expect to receive another 1,675 spring bulbs shipped from our secret source. 1,000 more bulbs we’ll plant in the Cedar Grove and Tunnel (English Bluebells, scilla, muscari, and crocus). 600 crocus and snowdrops we’ll plant in early spring melt spots. 75 Narcissi and hyacinth bulbs I’ll plant ’round the Roses and Kitchen Garden.
This annual autumn planting madness for us is:
– a fun and meaningful way to celebrate our loving partnership
– a financially sustainable way to grow our gardens
– therapeutic grief-work; a cleansing catharsis felt with each bulb I bury
– an active engaging of the creative canvas for our wounded-healer (Henri Nouwen) ministry; our dementia-care journey grief is converted to joy shared with friends with disabilities and their 24/7 caregivers, through our once-a-month Sunday Strolls and Memory Café program, April – October.
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary