Botanical Delights
~*Marge Tindal*~

Botanicals beauties are restless
or so it would seem
As this Ardisia crenata bursts forth
in a steady Spring stream
of red berries galore
and even more
New flowers of white
crown the top with delight~

The most gorgeous leaves,
crisp bright shiny green,
with the loveliest scalloped edges
that I’ve ever seen~

A naturalized botanical
of shores from afar
Possibly invasive … but, so far
she simply adorns the walkway
to our welcoming door~

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*Found it in the meadowland woods
and brought her home for Bill to pot*
~She’s such a beauty … and we like her a lot~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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