PARADISE LOST

Click on this link to see My Lost Garden This is the garden I made. This is the place the hirelings of the municipality of Shepherdstown, West Virginia, sanctioned by the mayor and town council, invaded, on 11 August 2011 to cut my trees.  They took more that twenty-five year trees. They also took away my sense of being secure in my own property. May it never happen to you.I have been working in this garden since 1989. I started planting flowers and trees before my house was built. Now it is all tainted by this act of violence and thuggery.

MY GARDEN IN APRIL

Wisteria covered arbour.

                                                                      Viburnum.

                                                                     Iberis.

Bleeding heart.

                                                                                Money plant.

Purple trillium.

                                                             Daffodil and rose leaf.

                                                                   Quince Toyo Nishiki

Alyssum saxatile.

Quince buds.

                                                              Dutchman's breeches.

                                                                   White violets.

                                                                 Nanking cherry in bloom.

Onions in a half whiskey barrel.

  Garlic grows in an old wheelbarrow.

Oriental poppy bud.

                                                                 Persian lilac.

                                                                            Yellow pansy.

                                                                             Bluebells.

                                                                         Grape hyacinths and violets.