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Provincetown :: Tuesday, May 21st 2013
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Into the Garden
@home, Provincetown
By M. Sebastian Araujo
June 27th, 2011
For a while now, I have been poking my nose into the historic, hysteric and homey homes of Provincetown. Waiting for the frigid air of winter to become the windy wetness of spring, which has turned into a tropical lushness this summer, making this seaside town resemble a jungle painted by Rousseau! Like my wacky, wooly and wily old dogs, I too want to get out of the house and into the Garden! Luckily I have lived with (and recently married) a gardener for over 25 years. For me the whole exercise of gardening has been watching him sculpt and paint with flowers and plants and the occasional fauna attracted to his canvas of natural abundance.
| Having landed in what I have often called Paradise (for me that is always spelled with a capital P!), it amazes me how in bloom this place is all year round. |
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Weather it be the terraced fire escape in NYC, a cottage in the town he was born in or finally our home in this tiny town by the sea, like many gardening and cultivating the earth around us, it is his life’s work. Of course, growing up in a family of lace-curtain Irishmen and Polish potato farmers on the East End of Long Island, he is often to be found smiling with a bit of earth upon his hands and a few bees buzzing gaily around him. Aquarians are like that you know!
Having landed in what I have often called Paradise (for me that is always spelled with a capital P!), it amazes me how in bloom this place is all year round. With the rains we have been having it’s really in BLOOM this year. In every nook and cranny one sees an abundance of beauty. It seems to me that for as long as man has been scrambling around this planet (no matter how we actually got here) gardening has been in our blood and on our minds. The ancient hanging gardens of Babylon must have been as glorious a sight as Versailles was, when Louis IV and Madame du Pompadour were disporting in the most beautiful place on earth at one of the most gracious times the world has ever known. Through wars and famines and plagues few things have survived as intact as man and woman’s love for nature and the desire to cultivate and tame it.
Each year various gardeners bring from their chosen venues beauty and magic . . . whether it be a humble terracotta flower pot perched upon a kitchen windowsill or the lavish hillside garden near the Provincetown Theatre which always causes cars to slow down on Bradford St.
Gardening is not merely a pastime or necessity but a much lauded Art! Even the shops and offices along Commercial Street do their share of planting and making the whole place seem like an abundant and fertile oasis in a cleft on this rock of a world. Each summer the Art of gardening reaches its apogee with the Annual Provincetown Art Association and Museum Garden tour and exhibit. This year is truly an amazing spectacle of Mother Nature’s abundance both in the ground and upon the walls of the museum. The show, curated by Richard Lacasse, is a cornucopia of works culled from the museum’s vast permanent collection. It depicts the many ways gardening and nature have influenced the work of Provincetown Artists for a long, long time (may I say bravo, on his first attempt). When this intrepid busybody was allowed a sneak peek at both the exhibition and a few of the gardens on the tour I was truly amazed by what I saw, whether a humble cottage garden or a grand alee, a flowerpot or a painting an artist long ago made.
Gardening is here and it’s here to stay! And, that’s the way we like it @ home, Provincetown.
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