Dianthus in the Missing Octave Garden Gala (return)      Garden Trail

The MAZE follows a stone walkway that curves to the left one way and to the right the other.  Or, you can push through the weeds to see what you can find.

Garden Date 1000 [This is the middle of the free story -- see "Tales from the Garden"]-- What happened next aroused Munk's interest. The Man, seeing the ruin that The Dogs had made in digging out his carefully engineered culvert, applied some politically incorrect discipline to the canine's hind quarters. When the city maintenance workers came to empty the large container, The Dogs protested furiously over the loss of their prizes, so dearly paid for. But this racket, disturbing Munk's meditations, only made him more and more determined to exact a measure of revenge. A plan began to form.
    There was a game that The Noisy Boy played on the big stone path beside the house, where The Lady left her horseless carriage to cool down after a long drive. Brother Munk was still working on his theories of wind resistance and was having a hard time explaining why high speeds caused a warming, rather than a cooling, effect on the front end of the carriage. But he did know that The Lady prized her carriage highly, and always moved it when The Noisy Boy came out to play, saying "Don't you go banging up my BMW!"
    The game was played with a giant walnut-shaped mass of what appeared to be the gristly, compacted remains of an animal hide, but actually tasted of the chemical plant you could sometimes smell if the wind blew just so. Anyway, the game consisted of throwing the giant nut up into a fake metal tree, kept just for that purpose, then chasing after it, sometimes successfully, before it flattened one of The Lady's roses or peonies.  [Go to Roses, G.D. 1000]