With Easter approaching fast, do look back at last year's posts and photos. While I wait for the website to be repaired, I'll paste up more flower-poems from the Seven Days of Creation sequence.

PLANTING SCHEMES

Silver and gold, the riverbank,
Planted by a careful mind,
Matching the tranquil river
Where slow reflections wind:

Feathery green of tansy,
Feathery grey between,
Stroked by the summer breezes:
Idyllic pastoral scene!

Tansy’s trays of florets,
Tufty yellow studs;
Silver plumes of mugwort,
Fringe above the floods.

When tansy turns to copper,
Warm in the autumn sun,
Mugwort still swaying silver,
Reflected in the river’s run;

Disorderly profusion,
Nature’s exuberant weeds,
Scattered in natural confusion:
Beauty the expert heeds:

Strolling along the riverbank,
The TV gardener’s advice:
“Mix and contrast the foliage,”
Unrolls before our eyes.