A group of purple & white pansies, photograph by tam’s partner. One pale lilac petal sits at the top, slightly underneath four petals which are edged in purple, but which have dark purple spraying out across white, with tiny yellow centres. It’s the way their lovely design appears that really does give them a comical look. The two petals directly in front of the back one each have a splotch of dark purple on white, that, together, makes them look like a pair of angry eyes. The bottom two petals’ splotches of dark purple could be frowns-or even frowns under big moustaches! So while these wee flowers are lovely…they’re also a bit funny when you see how Nature’s design played out in colours on their petals. One could forgive them “frowning” seeing as their green leaves have been nibbled by 🐌s and slugs. Still, they’re a pretty sight amidst our small garden patch, which is slowly bursting with Spring Life. Tall, swirling, pointed leaves behind the pansies and in the upper right are the forerunners of Tulips. Small, tri-leafed greens with serrated edges are what will be Wild Strawberries-great food for birds, btw. There are some frilly looking stems of green at about “10 o’clock” to the pansies, on the left. Those are the first signs of what will be beautiful Love-in-a-Mist flowers, which have grown in one spot where tam’s partner had (harvested then) scattered their seeds at season’s end last Summer. Little bits of green Life are springing up everywhere through the leaf litter-much of which has already been munched & taken back into the earth by worms, which enriches the soil naturally. Even this small patch is a microcosm of Nature’s ecosystem, ever in flux & renewed by many creatures people think of as “pests.” Snails, slugs and worms all play a vital part in the cycle of Life. Please remember that & refrain from using pesticides🙏.Garden For Wildlife: from worms, other invertebrates & tiny molluscs to birds & beyond, they need our help, as habitats disappear. 🙏~💞
pinched purple faces
seem to frown yet round petals
cradle hearts of gold
~tamisar💞
#haiku #poetry #humour #bloomscrolling #flowers #pansies & many more promises of #Spring fr/our #garden #Garden4Wildlife #HoldOn even if you’re #snowbound #SpringWillCome …eventually🙏~💞 #photography by tam’s partner
