From deep mud toward heaven - just like humans grow from dirty hell on earth back home to God. Lotus flowers develop purest colors, heavenly sweet fragrance and purity inside and outside. The greater the obstacle, the more powerful your love and self developed divinity has to be to overcome all odds on earth and find your way home to God.
The darker the darkness the larger your hunger for God's love and thus the more powerful your desire to make it home. Take an example in God's nature and act accordingly. Lotus flowers have but one one goal in life - to grow from deep down toward heaven. Mankind however often has too many goals and all forces are shattered into pieces with each vector force remaining too small to reach any spiritual goal at all. One single goal - "God and love" is the only goal you can achieve in a single life time. This one single goal is the only goal worth to live and to die for.
Lotus wallpaper 1600x1200ox. Enjoy God's love and grow your own love to make it home.
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A few years ago if someone had mentioned gabions I wouldn't have known what they were talking about. They were something that was used in civil engineering, large scale industrial landscaping - a mil lion miles away from domestic gardens. Now it seems they are becoming the cool thing to have.
At Tatton there are gabions in the show gardens, in the back to backs and on the trade stands - people are taking home DIY versions!
Basically a gabion is a metal - usually steel, cage filled with stones/rocks or various heavy materials. They are usually used to retain soil in banks and terraces or as barriers. I've seen taller, slim ones used as a wall and smaller, cubed ones made into seats - the permutations are endless, as demonstrated by the two young designers of the Visionary garden, Cubed3, at this year's Tatton.
This gold medal winning design is a modular scheme, gabions are linked together like building blocks and used in different ways - some are filled with rocks as foundations, some are filled with soil and planted and some are placed in the pond, allowing you to walk over the water's surface. Larger cages have been left empty and plants are able to grow up through them - it's very effective.
On the Edible Trends garden the Reaseheath College team have filled their gabions with carefully placed layers of stones and wood in decreasing sizes, creating a very pleasing pattern and a haven for wildlife. Apparently it took them ages to do but it looks fantastic.
A very 'green' way to fill your gabions is with odd bits of bricks, slates and tiles left over from building jobs, plus any empty bottles you may have accumulated. This is what they have used on A Place for Waste, another gold medal winning garden.
As you look around the show you will see all sorts of shapes and fillings and gabions used in many ways. I am feeling quite inspired and am planning to try something with sempervivums and I rather like the idea of turf cubes.
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