There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.

--Rose Fyleman, "Fairies"

I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine


--William Shakespeare,
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"





Would that this garland fair
Might weave around thy life,
A spell to shield from care,
A guard from every strife.


--Verse from a nineteenth-century calling card,
to be enclosed with a gift of flowers





"Butterflies are Free"
"A Garden Spot"
"Here's Mud in Your Eye"
"Beat Around the Bush"
"Daisies Don't Tell"
"The Bee's Knees"
"Thorn in my Side"
"Flower Power"
"What a Seedy Character"
"Stick in the Mud"
"Butterflies in my Stomach"
"Tiptoe through the Tulips"
"The Grass is Always Greener"
"Busy as a Bee"
"Bloomin' Idiot"
"Fresh as a Daisy"
"Hit Pay Dirt"
"Lily-Livered Coward"
"Live in Clover"
"A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush"
"Late Bloomer"
"Mum's the Word"
"The Birds and the Bees"
"Flower of Youth"
"Nip in the Bud"
"Gild the Lily"
"See the World through Rose-Colored Glasses"
"Dirt Cheap"
"Growing like a Weed"
"Green as Grass"
"Have Both Feet on the Ground"
"Has a Bee in her Bonnet"
"Shrinking Violet"

"Common phrases/cliches
from the Garden"


Place a primrose on your doorstep,
and a fairy will bring you sweet dreams!
(Better yet, leave it on the
doorstep of a friend!)

"Come into the Garden - The Language of Flowers" 




A Rose is
A Rose is
A Rose is A Rose.

--Gertrude Stein, "Sacred Testimony"



Sweet is the breath
of vernal shower,
The bee's collected treasures sweet,
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeeter yet
The still small voice of Gratitude.


--Thomas Gray, "Ode for Music" 1769






































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