This pic is on the cover one of my most beloved floral books. It's an album of Hawaii's flowers called, "In an old Hawaiian Garden" with word pics by Don Blanding and floral pics by T.J. Mundorff. Here is the first poem, which inspires me to get out into my own garden and also to share Hawaii's flowers with the world through my Hawaiian Flower business.
without some sort of flowers here
In sweet profusion, uncontrolled.
If all their many names were told
You'd weary of the endless list.
No color, tint or shape is missed
In Nature's wondrous gift to me.
I hope that I can make you see
This sun-lit, moon-witched, rainbow place
Of Beauty. Just a little space
Quite filled with flowers, vines and trees.
Walled in with stone, the haunt of bees
And butterflies and lunar moths.
When you are passing will you pause.
Or--if you will--you will drop in and see
The garden that belongs to me.
By Don Blanding
