The Latin inscription on the gravestone reads:

"Carpe diem,
quam minimum
credula postero."

"Enjoy today, trusting little in tomorrow."

 

 

In the Spring of 2002, I built a planter box in the shape of a coffin.  Staying with the garden's macabre theme, the "Planter's Box" contains Black Mondo Grass, 'Inky Fingers' Coleus, Hosta 'Golden Prayers' and Ghost Fern.

 

 

"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities.  Here indeed was the fairest field for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."

- Edgar Allan Poe