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Comments from Friends of the Adams Garden
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| I love the Adams Garden! I often walk through or sit and enjoy a cup of coffee there. I frequently see Madelynn, and we have often spoken, discussing a particular plant or what garden task is next etc. The Adams family was from PA, and I've often wondered about the original gift and hoped that the parents and friends of Gregory Adams realized what a place of sanctuary and peace the little corner garden became and how much pleasure it gives to so many - in large part due to Madelynn's labor of love in tending the garden. Marie Geddy (Vee Geddy's grandma and a W&M alum) died in September. The family requested memorial gifts support the Adams Garden or the Williamsburg Library. I sent your email on to Laura as I'm sure they would like to know about this effort. Kendra Rhodes, Assistant Director of Development, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, W&M |
| I had been photographing the College gardens for years. Tucked away in that little triangular area across from the President's House, I guess I had simply overlooked the Adams Garden. But one day I parked nearby to go to Massey's Camera Shop and I noticed all sorts of beautiful blooms peeking out through a rickety picket fence. That peaked my curiosity, as did the tiny hatted person on her hands and knees on the other side of the fence. So I stopped and we spoke, Madelynn and I, and I have been a devotee of the garden and its assorted treasures (including Madelynn) ever since. That was back in the Spring of 1990. Remember that lovely novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden? The Adams Garden inevitably brings it to mind. Dr. Ellen K. Rudolph, graduate Alum '77 |
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The Quote Garden
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. ~Lou Erickson There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~Author Unknown It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~Robert Louis Stevenson How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden. ~Hugh Johnson I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein, My Weeds, 1988 There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. ~Alfred Austin My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale Hot July brings cooling showers, Source: The Quote Garden |
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