Woolf and Gardens.......Literature Cambridge

“The compensation of growing old is that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained—at last!—the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence, the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it around, slowly, in the light.”
                                                            Virginia Woolf
The experience of reading, studying, and discussing various aspects of Virginia Woolf's use of gardens in her novels was exhilarating.  The Cambridge Literature course provided a wonderful opportunity to meet other Woolfians, explore Cambridge, and then visit Woolf's garden at Monk's House and Vanessa Bell's Charleston garden. Her garden in mid-July was a riot of color, attractive shapes and lovely fragrance. Mauve, scarlet and pink hollyhocks were everywhere, as were dusty millers, foxgloves, lavenders, orange and red poppies, yellow tiger lilies, purple and white iris, red hot pokers, burgundy mallows, purple artichoke flowers, white roses, and an abundance of ripening apples on numerous apple trees. Taken in its entirety, it all added a supreme flavour to existence........

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