The Literary Garden which is currently in the planning phase, is based on this verity. In a collaboration with Milner Library, the garden focuses on Midwestern authors who have written about agriculture, horticulture, and/or the environment. These diminutive gardens will be dispersed throughout the Horticulture Center. There will be interpretive signs with the appropriate passages accompanying these gardens. A great example would be the following poem from Wendell Berry, a Kentucky native who has written more than 30 books of poetry, essays, and novels.
Touch-Me-Not by Wendell Berry
“There is a flower called touch-me-not,
which means, of course, touch me,
for it depends upon touch for propagation,
as humans do. The blossom may be
two tones of orange, the darker exquisitely
freckling the lighter, or a clear lovely
yellow, an elegant aperture, inviting entry
by winged emissaries of imagination
actuated by love. The seed pods are made
of coil springs laid straight in the pod’s
shape; ripe, the seeds are restrained in
suspension of tension. Touched, they fly.”