Friends of the Wild Flower Garden

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Garden Plant of the Week

Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.

Grape Woodbine
Parthenocissus vitacea (Knerr) Hitchc.

Click link on name for information and photos of this plant.

 

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Reflections

“"September is more than a month, really, it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August’s leftovers and it ends with October’s preparations, but along the way it achieves special certainties and satisfactions. After summer’s hear and haste, it even brings a sense of quiet and leisure as the year consolidated itself and its achievements. But the green urgency is past, its ripeness almost complete. Even the days and nights near their time of balance as we approach equinox and harvest moon. Deliberate September, in its own time and tempo, begins to sum up another summer.” Hal Borland, 1987.

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A Seasonal Poem

HIGH from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees
As he esteemed them trifles,
And then he spied a breeze,
And situated softly
Upon a pile of wind
Which in a perturbation
Nature had left behind.
A joyous-going fellow
I gathered from his talk,
Which both of benediction
And badinage partook,
Without apparent burden,
I learned, in leafy wood
He was the faithful father
Of a dependent brood;
And this untoward transport
His remedy for care,—
A contrast to our respites.
How different we are!

"High from the earth" by
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)