CHILDREN GARDEN STATUES

MY CHILDHOOD AND GARDENS

My mother always had some sort of a garden. She was the worker gardener, and we were the playing little ones. Sometimes we hid under the tall cosmos playing hide-and-seek and sometimes we were the garden statues that had frozen in place when our brother swung us around when we played freeze statues. There was such an abundance of beauty around us as the results of her hours of gardening work. We all knew she loved gardening, even though a day of gardening left her pretty tired. Sometimes she grew vegetables but always there were flowers. And we played in amongst the flowers. There were hollyhocks that turned into dancing ladies when turned upside down. My sister and I made whole villages for our lovely ladies in the grass and under the shrubs. There were, of course, wonderful balls for our dancing hollyhock ladies to attend with their full, flared, frilly dresses in all of the pinks, purples, reds of the hollyhocks that grew high on their stalks in her garden. She had a few garden statues set off by a special background of gladiolas.

A favorite garden playtime activity was laying on the cool fragrant ground under the cosmos and pretending it was a house with a ceiling of hot pink flowers that opened to the sun waving in the gentle summer breezes.
Any garden is a happier place when it is inhabited by children. Children garden statues can bring that feeling even if they are quite still and make no mess, nor noise. We were always very careful to make no messes and take care where we stepped but we were as welcome in the garden as any silent children garden statues would have been.

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