Heronswood

For me a garden is about community, about relationships–both between humans and between us and the non-human world. A garden can be a place where we struggle against our circumstances be they edaphic, climatological or financial. A garden can also be a place where we embrace the circumstances we are in and the relationships that exist in the imperfect tapestry we call life. A garden can be the place where the beautiful imperfections of our soul are poured out over the land in a way that weaves our inner being into the web of relationships that exist around us. A mature garden is the recapitulation of a life. No matter what ideal we reach for, life finds a way to perturb our vision. The maturity we may wish to achieve as gardeners is the understanding that those often-unintended forms, undesired seedlings, and rambunctious ramblers are the transformations that time and the natural world wield upon our initial vision to create something far greater than we could achieve on our own- they are the realization of ourselves clothed in the tapestry of life. The greatest moments in one’s life are those unexpected results and unintended unions that bring us an unimaginable smile from so deep that it creates a lasting moment that redefines our lives.

Heronswood is the ever-evolving culmination of a community of human hands and the environment working to create lasting relationships. The payment for us who truly love and devote our lives to it is found in the sounds of wings and song, the heavenly scents, the tapestry of color, and the laughter, smiles and gasps that float across the woods and hedge.