MARY'S GARDEN - 1 -
De Rerum Natura - 7 -
1. The Great Trees - 9 -
2. Tree Orchids - 9 -
3. Shower Of Gold - 10 -
4. Flamboyant - 10 -
5. Frangipani - 11 -
6. Almond - 13 -
8. Rosemary And Thyme - 14 -
10. Rose of Gold - 15 -
11. Midnight Rose - 15 -
12. Night Choir - 16 -
13. Garden Storm - 16 -
14. Sea Wind - 17 -
15. Grass - 17 -
16. Water Lily - 19 -
17. Water Hyacinth - 19 -
18. Bluebells - 20 -
19. The White Chairs - 20 -
20. The Orchid House - 21 -
21. Ground Orchid - 21 -
22. Lilies Of The Field - 22 -
23. Fern - 22 -
24. Fountain - 23 -
25. The Cassias - 23 -
26. Solace - 24 -
27. Egrets - 24 -
28. Bougainvillea - 25 -
29. Marigolds - 27 -
30. Garden's Glory - 27 -
31. Hedges - 28 -
32. Orchid Mobile - 28 -
33. Sky Flowers - 29 -
34. Plumbago - 29 -
35. Poinsettia - 30 -
36. Crown Of Thorns - 30 -
37. Easter Lilies - 31 -
38. Cherry Ripe - 31 -
39. Pak Choi And Lettuce - 32 -
40. Sweet Pepper - 32 -
41. The Day Begins With Beauty - 33 -
42. Matins - 33 -
43. Firecrackers - 34 -
44. Paradise - 34 -
45. Mussaenda - 35 -
46. Venus - 35 -
47. Sunset - 36 -
48. Moonrise - 38 -
49. Hawk at rest - 38 -
50. Hawk on High - 39 -
51. Lightning - 39 -
52. Volcano - 40 -
53. Woodsmoke - 40 -
54. Death - 41 -
55. Flood - 41 -
56. The Overwhelming Sea - 42 -
57. Remembering - 42 -
58. Mongoose - 43 -
59. Ants - 43 -
60. Butterflies - 44 -
61. Bees - 44 -
62. Web - 45 -
63. Reading - 45 -
64. Ash - 46 -
65. Sunday - 46 -
66. QED - 48 -
67. Something Rain Does To Air - 48 -
68. Neighbours - 49 -
69. Memory Will Not Leave Him There - 49 -
70. Trumpet - 50 -
71. Night Of The Single Star - 50 -
72. The Shriek - 51 -
73. Butterfly - 51 -
74. Farming Is Different - 52 -
75. Blue Beyond Blue - 52 -
76. The Smell Of Memory - 53 -
77. Blue Sakis - 53 -
78. The Orchid Thief - 54 -
79. Spur Wings - 54 -
80. Frigate Bird - 55 -
81. Woodpecker - 55 -
82. Zoey Among The Flowers - 56 -
83. Miracle - 58 -
84. Tree Orchid - 58 -
85. Drought - 59 -
86. Imagined Garden - 59 -
87. The Lightness of Hummingbirds - 60 -
88. Jacob's Tree - 60 -
89. Pouring rain - 62 -
90. Fertilizer - 62 -
91. Dusk - 63 -
92. Seen Sounds - 63 -
93. Cloudless - 64 -
94. Sunlight In Rain - 64 -
95. The Perfect Flower - 65 -
96. Carib Sea - 65 -
97. The Facts In This Matter - 66 -
98. Strange Beauty - 66 -
99. Asphodel - 67 -
100. Lifelines - 67 -
101. The Green Limes - 68 -
102. Hibiscus - 68 -
103. Throwing A Hummingbird - 70 -
104. Idea Into Word - 72 -
105. The Petal Shivers - 73 -
Going Away - 75 -
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - 76 -
Sometimes, before I go to read, when the light from the sky is especially beautiful, I walk, book in hand, in the many spaces of the garden. I look up ? a hawk soars from branch to branch sun flashing on its wings. I treasure everything I see. At certain times of the year the rush of blood in the flamboyants and at Christmas the fire-coal of poinsettias flame and glow. There are the sumptuous capes of purple orchids thrown across the arbour by the kitchen garden and fans of golden orchids blow along grey-mottled boughs. All about is hibiscus, the garden's glory, flowering anew every day. A vine of sky-blue blossoms half-cover a white wall, a curtain of heart-shaped leaves incomparably woven.