Kind Eden - Workshop in Steve's Garden

 

On Sunday October 5th - we gathered in Warboys for an experimental garden words workshop. It was a wonderful day, the weather was cool but gentle and Steve's garden is a layout of small plant rooms, a mini orchard, an abundance of rocks, trees, shrubs and flowers. There was plenty of wildlife about too. 

Here's a taste of the writing from Simone - which will along with everyone else's be edited into a whole - a performance for voices which we are calling - a Word Orchestra.  The idea is to harvest the images, sounds, tastes on the wind and smells of the garden to produce a wall of experience. 

Kind Eden – An Oasis in the Fens

Crunchy acorns underfoot, pop, split, crack

Bug hotels, ancient totem poles, stand the test of time

Tall, dry grasses bristly whisper

Bursts of pink and yellow rose petals

Rosehips, big as apples, bob in the breeze

Mugwort’s fading feathery leaves

Mugwort: sweet, grounding, earthy, minty, woody

Branches rubbing, squeaking like tiny invisible mice

Allium, an exploded brown firework, frozen on bursting

Bees busy themselves on purple and yellow Michaelmas Daisies

Sunny nodding heads of orange and yellow calendula

Spotty ladybird hiding on spotty lungwort

Pyracantha. Fire thorn! Orange pomes dangle in clusters like earrings

A tiny pink hollyhock no higher than the arm of the bench gets a second wind

Indecipherable birds chattering in the distance

Soft woodchip underfoot, cushions each step

Bright red fire drop pips on Berberis’ burgundy leaf

Hushhhh say the bamboo leaves

Swampy pond, the scum line thick green algae

Deadwood, like old bones

Tiny living succulents, green, red, brown

Creamy pampas grass, a royal guard’s plume

Trickling, splashing waterfall shimmering, never-ending

Cabbage Whites dance, whirl, chase and scatter in all directions

Red Admiral on calendula, colourful contrast

Trees rustle and sway, making way for a monster

Birds struggle against the gusts

Red Kite takes advantage of a slipstream

Pink sedum, clouds of marshmallow and coconut

Orange-yellow flames of Nasturtium