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Photo courtesy of Bobbie Cyphers<\/p><\/div>\n

‘Memories as Sweet as Wild Mountain Honey, as Potent as Blackberry Wine’<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, Bobbie Cyphers had a dream of creating a magical place in the middle of nowhere. \u201cThe idea for some kind of creative, horticulture-related business of my own sprouted when I moved to South Carolina in the late 1980s,\u201d she says. \u201cBy 1991, after John and I married, I began researching and planning in earnest, using the old business model still practiced in much of Europe: living over the shop or, in our case, with the shop. Two years later on a sunny mountain morning, we hung out the sign\u2014The Herb of Grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bobbie\u2019s memoir, Growing Grace: Stories from The Herb of Grace Gardens, Nursery, Shop & Tearoom<\/em>, invites readers into a charming world of vintage roses, fragrant herbs and bountiful spreads of teas and culinary delights nestled \u201cin a valley hidden deep in the heart of old mountains\u201d in Madison County. Along the way readers will meet the people who helped sow the seeds for her dream\u2014neighbors, employees, patrons, visitors and, most essentially, family.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Bobbie Cyphers<\/p><\/div>\n

As a child in Florida, the outdoors beckoned. \u201cI wrote most of my earliest stories either sitting in a field of wild pinks and sandspurs or wandering through the piney woods with tiny brown bats dangling from the fennel weeds,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I think growing up a child of nature and of the soil gave birth to The Herb of Grace with all the wonder and beauty of that special place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing Grace<\/em> is a \u201cBefore\u201d story, as Bobbie calls it, for she ends her narrative just before a family tragedy in 2002. \u201cI wanted the readers when they closed the book for the final time to leave with a feeling of hope and joy,\u201d she says. For her, though, \u201cThe thread of my life snapped,\u201d she says, \u201cand a wide, deep, dark chasm opened up.\u201d She and John closed the business and moved to a farmhouse in Tennessee to grieve. \u201cOn the other side was my After.\u201d In time, she would turn to memories, all that she felt she had left. \u201cSo I began writing them down,\u201d she says, \u201cto hold on to them.<\/p>\n

Then one day I gathered the courage to open the boxes that held all that remained of my small commerce. Each picture, each scrap of paper or note, or recipe, or worn plant label seemed to glow with sunlight, sparking a memory and a story.\u201d Family members shared their memories as well and, in time, the book was finished.<\/p>\n

Bobbie\u2019s hope as a writer is that readers \u201cturn the last page and feel as if they\u2019ve spent time in the company of remarkable souls at a time and place most magical.\u201d Over the course of the book\u2019s stories, which complement, overlap and build one upon another, the small business grows as word spreads and visitors wind along mountain roads to arrive in a paradise of well-tended gardens with, eventually, a verandah of tables for tea.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Bobbie Cyphers<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always been tea,\u201d Bobbie says. It was a pastime she and her daughter Kim enjoyed from the time Kim was tiny. \u201cAnd throughout the years of my life,\u201d Bobbie says, \u201c\u2018having tea\u2019 was a soothing ritual after a long day, kind of like a sigh or taking your boots off\u2014only quieter and more elegant.\u201d<\/p>\n

With help from a connoisseur at the British American Tea Company, located then in North Carolina, Bobbie expanded her knowledge of teas such as Royal Gunpowder, Nepal Ilam and Vietnam Black. As for tidbits to serve with afternoon tea, she relied on her own upbringing. \u201cI started with old family recipes\u2014some written down, others learned by watching and listening to the women in my large extended family as they went about feeding the multitude,\u201d she says. A love of cookbooks helped also as she made the recipes of others into her own with \u201ca smidgen of this instead of that, a dollop instead of a pinch,\u201d until she had something deliciously original. Favorite recipes are included alongside stories in the book.<\/p>\n

Part of her preparation for writing was going through guest books from years ago, which sparked memories of the many visitors to The Herb of Grace. \u201cReading what they wrote, hearing their conversations, I realized early on, they sought us out not only for tea outside on the verandah or a beautiful rose or even just a stroll through the garden but for the spirit of the place made up of all those things, shared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days spent cultivating and caring for plants, cooking and serving teas, and selling plants and gifts from the shop often stretched to a wearying 18 hours; nevertheless, though the time has passed for another such enterprise, Bobbie says, she misses it. Today, she and John live in an old farmhouse on 25 acres called Garden in a Wood. \u201cWith us we brought hundreds of left-over potted plants from the nursery propagated by me and Kim and Mom,\u201d she says. \u201cI started digging, and a garden began to grow from the ashes of the past.\u201d Although she does not formally open the garden to visitors, she shares it when she can with garden clubs, herbalists, children\u2019s groups and those who love the outdoors. \u201cEvery day we feel like we\u2019re \u2018walking on holy ground,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cJust as we did at The Herb of Grace, we treat the land and gardens and all the creatures who share it with us with reverence, sustainably, organically, holistically and in imperfect<\/em> harmony with nature.\u201d It\u2019s this \u201cheartbreaking beauty\u201d of nature that brings her peace as she finishes a sequel to Growing Grace. \u201cI call it From the Ashes,\u201d she says, \u201cthe garden stories of After.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about Garden in a Wood or to order a copy of <\/em>Growing Grace, visit BobbieCyphers.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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