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| Stickywilly's domain! |
The
gardening season is in full swing! Lawns need mowing, pots need watering, pests
are lurking and weeds are rampaging! It seems to be an exceptionally good year
for goose grass or cleavers (Galium aparine), or the best name of all amongst
many, stickywilly! The burrs (seed heads) were always known to me as a child as
‘sweethearts’! It is a particularly powerful plant, strangling the life out of
anything that dares to get in its way! Oh, to be more like stickywilly!!
Anyway,
here’s my take on the gardening season!
A Gardener’s World
Keen patrons queue outside my gate
To pay their dues and keep the date
To point in wonder at my flowers
And gasp in awe at all the hours
I must have slaved through day and night
To conjure up this wondrous sight.
I thought I’d serve folks cups of tea
And give the loot to charity.
The hosta leaves are just amazing,
No weeds creep through the crazy-paving,
The honeysuckle teases noses,
And you can’t ignore my perfect roses.
Fresh mowing lines upon the lawn
Prove that I have been up since dawn
To edge and clip, and tie and trim,
Deadhead and harvest, sweat and strim.
My veggie patch is at its peak,
With lettuce, spuds, courgettes and leeks.
I’d thought of selling surplus stocks,
By way of Annie’s ‘honest’ box!
But what’s this lurking? Spider mite?
And oh the fly! Green! Black! And white?
Slugs manufacture doyleys green,
The furtive snail shins up the beans
Where busy bees red flowers shun,
Preferring mauve buddleias in the sun.
Woodlice and ants invade dry slabs,
Seeds germinate in dribs and drabs.
At least the docks (at four feet plus)
Cool nettle stings with little fuss.
Tall hollyhocks succumb to rust
As Mother Nature betrays my trust.
The wilt’s wiped out the clematis,
Grey mould’s become my nemesis,
Mice secretly devoured the peas,
And the rambler’s caught black spot disease.
But hey! The dandelions thrive!
And the cabbage white’s are all alive!
‘Garden Open’ was my dream I fear,
And it happens every blooming year!
Thanks for
your time!
The Leebotwood Poet xx
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