Flowers
Putting In The Seed
--by Robert Frost
You come to fetch me from my
work tonight
When supper's on the table,
and we'll see
If I can leave off burying the
white
Soft petals fallen from the
apple tree
(Soft petals, yes, but not so
barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean
and wrinkled pea),
And go along with you ere you
lose sight
Of what you came for and become
like me,
Slave to a springtime passion
for the earth.
How Love burns through the Putting
in the Seed
On through the watching for
that early birth
When, just as the soil tarnishes
with weed,
The sturdy seedling with arched
body comes
Shouldering its way and shedding
the earth crumbs.
The flowers I have chosen to
include here have become
my favorites for various reasons.
One year I decided to
start all my flowers from seed.
They did quite well for a
while, but in the end the beautiful
blue Morning Glory
was the only one to grow and
bloom. My first butterfly
bush was given to me as dying,
I nursed it back to health
and it grew huge and bloomed.
That fall I had more than
one hundred Monarch butterflies
visit my backyard, which I
hadn't seen since my childhood.
Million Gold is an annual
I bought at the local garden
shop to use as a filler and this
wonderful daisy-like yellow
flower bloomed all summer
long and well into the fall.
My sister Sandra taught me
how to take care of Lavender.
It's such an elegant plant with beautiful flowers. I always pick
a bouquet in the fall and place it next to my reading lamp in the living
room and as it dries it gives off such a wonderful scent.
Million
Gold
Melampodium
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