Flowers Speak in Colors Shapes and Fragrance
Reciprocal Nature Prompt
On a cold winter day, the fresh white flowers of this African violet are a soothing sight.
The small splash of purple is a pleasing color and a roadmap for pollinators such as bees to find the pollen inside its bright yellow anthers. That is if the plant was in its outdoor native habitat of Tanzania. There won’t be any natural pollinators in this house so any pollination and seed creation will have to be done by hand by us humans.
The first Gerbera daisy of the year bloomed for the new prompt.
Spring has come early in my warm and sunny kitchen window. Gerbera is a plant native to southeast Africa and is now cultivated worldwide, inside and outside, for its beautiful flowers.
These flowers that bloom and get me through the long winter months remind me of the coming spring and summer in my outdoor garden.
Scarlet Monarda patch blooming in the sun.
These flowers are blooming and buzzing almost constantly from late spring through autumn with many species of bees. Bumblebees are among my favorite friends in the garden. A native plant to the northeast United States they are a welcome sight and meal to the Ruby Throated Hummingbird when they are in their summer, the northern part of their long and lifelong migration. If the bees and hummingbirds are happy, I’m happy.
Spring is only a couple of months away.
A good time as any to write a twittle poem. An exactly 100-letter quatrain with a touch of rhyme, popularized on Medium and Twitter by the wonderful Carolyn Hastings.
And soon the daffodils will break the earth, push up through. With soft sun-yellow cup and saucer pour flower fragrance too.
Pollinators aren’t the only creatures who are affected by flowers’ scent, shape, and color. I am already looking in the winter garden for signs of those coming spring blooms.
I can’t wait to see the many-petaled and pleasantly fragrant peonies burst into bloom.
I will always remember the scent of lilacs in the fresh spring air.
And the scent of lilies.
And roses perfuming the air.
Always something to look forward to. So many friendly blooms return each time another year comes around.
Another beautiful peony bloom attracts humans and pollinators both.
Written in response to Dr. Preeti Singh and her Reciprocal Nature Prompt, ‘In Joy And in Sadness, Flowers Are Our Friends,’ for the third week of January…
Please read Dr. Fatima Imam praise of roses…
And read Mia Verita and her beautiful and informative look at the power of flowers…
Thank you, always, to the helpful and kind editors of Reciprocal, Sahil Patel, Dr. Preeti Singh, and Yana Bostongirl.
