Category Archives: Flora

A Garden Gift

Posted on January 30, 2025 by sputterpub

In transit to the compost bin to tossthe morning coffee grounds, it caught my eye:a harbinger of coming spring, a glossof blooming foliage 12 inches high.I planted neither seed nor shoot acrossthat space between 2 bushes. I could tryidentifying this … Continue reading →

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The Garden Today

Posted on July 24, 2024 by sputterpub

This time of year the garden overgrowsencouraged by the sunlight and the hose.I’m quite content among the green I chose,and former-neighbor gifts of plum and rose.

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Somebody’s Dogwood

Posted on June 29, 2024 by sputterpub

If I had space, I’d plant a dogwood treewhere lemons fail to grow, outside my place.Its leaves and blooms would please abundantly,if I had space. But there’s no room for new roots to embrace,and adding shade would block good light … Continue reading →

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Wisteria Weird

Posted on May 11, 2024 by sputterpub

I understood that the varietywe purchased to replace the flooded vinewould purple-bloom, but every spring I seemore white racemes emerge beneath the spineof limb about to leaf. Adjacentlythe older plant survived and grew, to twinethe trellis flowerless, by experts doomed.But … Continue reading →

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Droppings

Posted on May 10, 2024 by sputterpub

I dwell beneath some trees, so I have shadebut also droppings from the limb and leaf.Accustomed to the messes birds have madeand squirrels squirt, I don’t feel any grief,but twinges of annoyance can invademy peace. What’s sap or shit is … Continue reading →

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Gauge

Posted on May 2, 2024 by sputterpub

Regardless of the calendar, I thinkthat spring begins when I hear sprinklers spray.The system’s set to let the garden drink3 times a week, and as of yesterday,its switch is flipped to operate the wayintended: early morning; minutes – 10.If winter’s … Continue reading →

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Anticipating Serenity

Posted on April 27, 2024 by sputterpub

The one event that’s calendared todayis lunch with a companion dear to me.The weather’s soft and vernal – insects playin blossoms – through my window all I seelooks healthy, clean and stirring in the swayof breeze. Before and after lunch, … Continue reading →

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Tree B Gone

Posted on April 22, 2024 by sputterpub

I heard the saw before I reached my blockon Saturday, and wondered at the sound.I turned the corner with a little shock,to see big chunks of trunk be brought to ground.I wondered how the tree had looked, leaf-crowned;I never paid … Continue reading →

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Look What’s Leafing

Posted on March 24, 2024 by sputterpub

Although we’ve changed the clocks, and daffodilsamid new tulips spice the yards nearby,and morning birds greet sunrise with their trills,and former dormant insects start to fly,the sight that tokens springtime to my eye,impressing and engendering beliefrenewal isn’t dead, is how … Continue reading →

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Deckoration

Posted on March 23, 2024 by sputterpub

Between my room and office spans a deck.Above it looms a eucalyptus treethat often drops its leaves and leaves a wreckat times with sap and seeds or twig debris.But not till last week did I ever seea limb so large … Continue reading →

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