“He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.” John 15:2
Have you ever noticed how a gardener tends to their plants, carefully snipping away even the flourishing branches? This act of pruning is not an indication of failure, but rather a commitment to future growth. Just as a vinedresser skillfully…
Plant of the Day
Saturday 12 April 2025
Soon this beautifully fan trained Malus domestica ‘Laxton’s Fortune’ (apple) will be covered in pale pink flowers. This dessert apple was developed by the Laxton Brothers Nursery, Bedford, UK, and released in 1904. It has been described as a useful substitute for Malus ‘Cox’s Orange Pippin’ (one of its parents), having some of that aromatic flavour and being but much easier to grow. This variety will even set a light crops even if there are no pollination partners nearby, but cropping will be better with another variety to cross-pollinate the blossom.
Jill Raggett
Overgrown
I have Pruned hardly
Lemon thyme
茂り過ぎ
切り詰めたるや
レモンタイム
(2023.07.22)
On Becoming Redundant, Karma
Don’t tell me “Time.”
Please do tell me how to recover from promised art not done.
From abrupt ending friendship.
From becoming less than others in their eyes, from the put-offs and excuses I didn’t ask for.
From the loss of sweet chats which showed deep mutual understanding.
From having gotten used to being valued by someone who isn’t me but was so wonderfully not.
From seeing someone who couldn’t spare time to keep a promise frolic and create for a new bunch of friends who are undoubtedly deserving and delightful.
From seeing the new enthusiasms acknowledged in public with the same words once used in private for me.
From actually understanding because I get it. It is just how things go, how people can be. How this stranger friend needs to be and couldn’t bring themselves to say clearly.
Please tell me how to recover from understanding why they had to prune me from their life.
It’s not so much the abrupt end. It’s not so much the twist in my gut when I think of something I’d usually share with them.
It’s understanding.
I hate it.
Please tell me how I recover from knowing they had to go. From knowing they were leaving before they even started.
Please tell me how to recover from another human being being human.
M__M 2023
{{ #shadowlove 💕 #shadowsunday These are the #pruned bits of old growth azaleas. 🌸 I prune the plants in June & seldom toss out the cut off pieces. 😳 True Confession :: #ihoardnaturebits 😱 }} #somepinkflowers 🌸 I do use some in ArtyProjects … However, to me THIS #shadowplay … #thisisart
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I bet you are a #shadowlover too. 💕 (at Saint Augustine, Florida)
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trim (a tree, shrub, or bush) by cutting away dead or overgrown branches or stems, especially to increase fruitfulness and growth.
Ex: the pipeline will get pruned
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Plant of the Day
Friday 30 April 2021
In the Barn Garden of Great Dixter, Sussex, UK, the Ficus carica ‘Brunswick’ (fig) is trained flat against the tall barn wall every winter. It is just about to come into leaf which will hide the beautiful graphic lines of the pruned grey stems.
Jill Raggett
Struggling Spring
#valiant #effort
#pruned #peach #trees
#pink #blossoms
#spring #struggle
#wicked #windy #weather
#southernindiana
(at Scott County, Indiana)
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#pruned @jacksonfamilywines (at Bennett Valley AVA)
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The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
It is nine inches high.
Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth:
the bound feet,
the crippled brain,
the hair in curlers,
the hands you
love to touch.
—-
A Work of Artifice
Marge Piercy (B.1936)
—-
Graphic - Moise Kisling 1891-1953
#tree #unusualshape #pruned #countryside #landscapephotography #appicoftheweek #branches #farmland #amateurphotographermagazine #nature #naturephotography #shaped #forestiered #machen #igerscaerphilly (at Machen)
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The trees which are pruned watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people. — Bryant McGill, New Exclusive Content >> https://SimpleReminders.com
Srinagar: Burn Hall school in Srinagar did not prune Chinar trees on its very own but the following authorities directed a bidder to do so.
An formal get issued by Tehsildar south on February 23 said that a representation of the school had pleaded for pruning/cutting of dry branches of the trees around the gate to the district commissioner.
The Tehsildar stated immediately after a bidder deposited Rs 8000 in the government exchequer, he was directed for “pruning of only determined and ordered branches of Chinar trees exisitinh adjacent to the school gate in existence of anxious Naib Tehsildar”.
The bidder was also directed to eliminate the felled branches from the spot, the order said.
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