Speaking Flowers – Carol J. Michel
Of all of the flowers in my backyard, I really feel like it’s the Double Tiger Lily, Lilium lancifolium ‘Flore Pleno’ who does a lot of the speaking in mid-summer.
Simply have a look at it. Doesn’t it look gossipy, prefer it has opinions to share, observations to make, and orations to ship to all the opposite flowers?
So allow us to momentarily pay attention in to these opinions, observations, and orations, lets?
“Carol might do a greater job of weeding round right here. Truthfully, if I see another crabgrass crawling towards me I’ll completely scream! And people horrible mulberry weeds! Ugh. They will ship their seeds to date… one hit me on a decrease leaf the opposite day, I swear it’s true.”
And
“Do you bear in mind there was another of us a couple of years in the past? That was when Carol dug up one in every of us, IN FULL FLOWER, and gave it to her sister. I ponder the way it’s doing? Did it dwell? It’s not at all times nice to be dug up like that, half your roots left behind, and then you definitely’re anticipated to place down new roots wherever and nonetheless flower and all. What if you happen to don’t like your new residence? Why aren’t we requested if we wish to go elsewhere? Truthfully, we deserve extra respect and consideration.”
Or
“What’s Carol doing beginning seeds for perennials and biennials this time of yr? Go searching! Do you see room for extra flowers? This mattress is getting kinda shady too, and no, I don’t imply a few of you flowers round me are shady characters. Recover from yourselves. I imply we aren’t getting as a lot solar as we used to. If one thing isn’t accomplished, we’ll have hostas and astilbes transferring in. No telling what that can do to property values! Anyway, I don’t know the place she thinks she’s placing these seedlings, if these seeds even germinate, but when she’s planning a brand new flower mattress, I simply may wish to transfer to it.
And
Does Carol not have one ounce of coloration sense? These phlox over there are clashing with my stunning orange colours. Such pink! Truthfully, you’d suppose Carol simply randomly crops flowers with none sense of what’s going to be blooming on the similar time. Plopper’s Discipline, certainly. We want some flower zoning legal guidelines and ordinances round right here, or this place will go to the dogbanes. Sure, I mentioned dogbanes. I used to be so completely satisfied when she dug out that dogbane a couple of years in the past. It was completely taking on and I, for one, felt fairly threatened.”
And on it goes. The phlox, alternatively, simply silently blooms and thinks about all of the locations the place it could possibly self-sow itself, far-off from the lily.
********
Have you ever subscribed to my new weekly publication? It comes out each Sunday at 7 p.m. Japanese time with little tidbits about what’s taking place in my backyard every week. It’s a little bit of journalling, pondering, and sharing of gardening information. The fifth one comes out tomorrow!
Supply hyperlink
Of all of the flowers in my backyard, I really feel like it’s the Double Tiger Lily, Lilium lancifolium ‘Flore Pleno’ who does a lot of the speaking in mid-summer. Simply have a look at it. Doesn’t it look gossipy, prefer it has opinions to share, observations to make, and…