Gary Crone

Beverly's Garden Gary Crone

This is a book written by a son about her mother's garden. It includes an original poem by the author entitled "Beverly's Garden." The poem discusses her relationship to the seasons, weather, flowers and creatures that visit her garden. It underscores the close personal relationship between the gardener and her garden that has developed and grown over the decades. The leads the reader to understand that the labor in the garden is not to perfect the garden to garden labor can perfect the soul. Written as a sentimental pictorial of a mother's flowers garden ,it includes several images of her garden flowers and identifies them by their common names. This is a common backyard garden from the Midwest, with none of the trappings of fancy or extravagance. It is a working person's garden where one goes to toil in the soils, work the plants and free the mind of worry and stress.