A garden designed in memory of the former Beatle , George Harrison, was unveiled at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, England, last week.
According to reports, the garden portrays Harrison’s life in four stages – childhood, shown by a vegetable plot and a bike in rough grass; a Beatles and 1960s area; and representations of his older self and spiritual life.
The garden contains a 1960s section, which has the names of his songs and a 6ft-wide glass sun, reminding visitors of Here Comes the Sun, which Harrison wrote for the Beatles album ‘Abbey Road’ in 1969.
Planted with scrubby thistles and allotment vegetables, brightly clashing perennials, white-stemmed birches and scented roses, the garden also has flowers – palmatum, anchusa and achillea that represent the psychedelic colors of the era.
Olivia Harrison said of her late husband, “He always told me his first garden was his father’s vegetable patch” .She said that as a teenager, Harrison was unhappy at being kicked out of a local park at closing time. “He always said, ‘One day I will have my own garden.” Now, she is happy with this representation of his own garden and has named it “From Life To Life, A Garden for George”
One visitor to the garden called it a Signature Garden, saying that it was as if the great George himself had written his signature on the earth using all species of plants, like a Blog in the Earth. His last post!
If gardens reflect that space inside my head, which I can’t always have in my home, and if gardening can also be my blog post using the earth as “the internet” and vegetables and edible flowers as my blog content, doesn’t this mean that I can have my blog and eat it too?
Filed under: Gardening for the Baby Boomers, Partnering with Nature, Renewal
