Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram,
The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun,
and with him rises weeping: these are flowers
of middle summer.
--William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Wherever our gardens grow, July brings in all the bounty of summer. The colors are delicious. Gardening attunes us to the vast range of the color green, as the single word seems so inadequate to describe all of the different hues.
The grass and clover are a bright spring green, while the arbor vitae along the road and picket fence are forest green. The moss is sea green. Backlit by the sun, the leaves are jade green and emerald green.
Medieval theologians saw green as the color of rebirth and eternal life, believing that it nourished both body and soul. During the month of July, let the lushness of our gardens and the color green nourish your soul and delight your eyes.
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