{"id":9682,"date":"2014-07-07T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluelotuscreative.com\/glenvillagardens\/a-different-way-to-follow-my-tree-july\/"},"modified":"2014-07-07T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:05:00","slug":"a-different-way-to-follow-my-tree-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenvillaartgarden.com\/fr\/a-different-way-to-follow-my-tree-july\/","title":{"rendered":"A different way to follow my tree: July"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Corylus avellana ‘Red Majestic’ has grown in the last month — not much but enough that its head now rises above the wooden rail that marks the back edge of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The colour of the leaves reminds me of Heuchera ‘Palace Purple.’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I chose this tree because of the colour of the leaves, and I continue to find them a wonderful contrast to the blue spruce and the sharp green of amsonia. Unfortunately, to see this colour contrast you have to stand at the edge of bank, a precarious position that no one of firm mind would choose.<\/p>\n

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The leaves rise up on spindly stems, which makes them resemble heuchera even more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Following a tree takes on a different meaning when you look around the garden more widely. This tree striding across a rock in the woods seems to be leading its followers somewhere special.<\/p>\n

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A friend who does calligraphy told me that the tree resembles
the Chinese character for ‘man.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Is he heading for the woods…<\/p>\n

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Tall trees cast long shadows on ferns in the woods at Glen Villa.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Or the open fields, where a single tree is waiting to greet him?<\/p>\n

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Early autumn colours trees in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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I doubt that he will take the straight and narrow path.<\/p>\n

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Christmas trees in the making.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Whatever destination I can imagine for him, I’d rather see him return to the earth than become hard as rock.<\/p>\n

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Petrified wood in the Egyptian desert.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I feel a particular affection for my striding tree-man: he inspired the art installation Abenaki Walking <\/i>as well as the painted tree trunks that once crossed the fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Abenaki Walkers<\/i>, 2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

For a few more years he will remain as he is, a natural form that can be seen as a man or a dead tree or an inspiration for some other person’s dream.  He is plain and simple and I hope my praise won’t make him blush. <\/p>\n

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I saw this piece by Sam Keith on the grounds of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
It is called \u00ab\u00a0In the Shadow of Abracadabra.’<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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