Wild Child...She only lets me think I've tamed her.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Little Prince

Foamflower 'Pink Brushes'

Half past April

three catalogs left

I'm weary and pooped

hubby's left out of the loop

he thinks my gardening's just fine

as long as I never spend even a dime

packages lining up faster than I can open

back deck's strewn with a zillion baby plants

Jacob's Ladder

Columbine

Half past June

things aren't right

all my spacious gardens

shrunk twenty sizes too small

half zillion plant infants still mope

puny runts with no hope on back deck

cramming each baby into a one inch square

I hope my jam-packed plots don't choke in despair

Blackhaw Viburnium

Lyre-Leaved Sage 'Purple Knockout'

Half past August

what the bloody hell

watered front and back

half with my pouring sweat

I'm wilted and dragging my feet

gardens thirty times larger than April

a ton of mulch will give welcomed relief

if I can sweet talk my darling dearest husband

Shooting Stars

Species Tulip 'Little Beauty' 

Half past October

denial suits me well

impossible to clean up

all that bird food and shelter

who am I to question authority

and ridicule old mother nature's plan

so I snack on a bowl of cheese onion chili

and curl up in my blankie for a long winter rest

Clematis ochroleuca

Carolina Allspice 'Athens'

ripe honeydew fragrance

A bit of a mess -

Dustin's paradise

Miss Zoe's window perch -

The gardens have her stamp of approval

anytime the bird bath outside her window

is filled with plump tasty birds.