{"id":144941,"date":"2024-06-03T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-orchard-a-place-where-you-tame-trees-or-try-to-an-act-of-hope-helen-sullivan\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:18:47","slug":"an-orchard-a-place-where-you-tame-trees-or-try-to-an-act-of-hope-helen-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/an-orchard-a-place-where-you-tame-trees-or-try-to-an-act-of-hope-helen-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"An orchard: a place where you tame trees, or try to \u2013 an act of hope | Helen Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy grandmother\u2019s orchard stopped me in my tracks, and I only have to read the word to feel the shade of those treesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMy grandmother had a small orchard in her garden in Johannesburg. It was a few plum and peach trees, and very shady. The leaves of the plum trees were purpley-green, almost black, and the ground was covered with the pits of decayed peaches, so that when I ran barefoot across the sunny garden with its dry grass, and into the orchard, I was forced to stop; it was like running over hard pebbles. And when I stood still, it was dark and smelled like rotting fruit. There were gnats hovering near the ground. I lifted my foot and looked at the hard folds on the peach pit. My shadow stopped at the orchard\u2019s border, it could not cross.An orchard is a place where you tame trees, or try to. To plant one is an act of hope, the belief that home will mean abundance, that it is good to put down roots. \u201cThese trees came to stay,\u201d is how Richard Wilbur opens his poem Young Orchard.the shadows of long pines down trackless slopes,
\n the shadows of glass-faced towers down evening streets,
\n the shadow of a frail plant on a city sill\u2014Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best readsbattalions of starlings waging peaceful cries,
\n bearing the net higher, covering this world
\n like the vines of an orchard, or a mother drawing
\n the trembling gauze over the trembling eyes
\n of a child fluttering to sleep;
\n it was the lightDo you have an animal, insect or other subject you feel is worthy of appearing in this very serious column? Email helen.sullivan@theguardian.com Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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