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Maskmaker, Maskmaker

| Flower Roberts

Maskmaker, Maskmaker keep making masks

slow down the spread, ‘fore we’re all dead

Stick to your scissors and needle and thread

and keep making Covid masks.

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For sister, she wants hers pretty.

For brother, he prefers his be green.

Daddy’s? His must be sturdy.

Be sure to check thickness by flame blowing.

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Maskmaker, Maskmaker stick to your task

so we can breathe and we can thrive

Keep young ones healthy and old ones alive

This pandemic cannot last.

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Grandma? She will misplace hers.

And Grandpa? He will sleep in the thing.

All masks must be three layers

both sides of thick cotton with interfacing.

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Maskmaker, Maskmaker share them with all, strangers and friends,

folks far and wide.

Help us stay safe ’til this pandemic ends

then we can all go outside.

WEAR a DAMN MASK.     NO, not damask!

(Singing is better than cussing…)

FLOWER

 

 

 

Fig on his Face

| Flower Roberts

You told me this would happen. (Peggy Joan, Eliza, Robyn)

I wrote a post on how much I loved my cute, little creeping fig climbing up the carport wall.( Look at it now)

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You warned me that it would get sneaky and slither everywhere.

I looked away for a moment. (Okay, maybe a couple months.)

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I looked back and poor little Moss had fig on his face.

I guess it will cover little Lily next.

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Then make its way around the truck tires.

You tried to warn me that this cute, little vine was a creeper.

The heart wants what the heart wants. Even if it is bad for the statuary. (My bad.)

Creeping fig. Another ivy, only cuter.

Sigh!

Flow

 

Rumple Rowe

| Flower Roberts

I name parts of my garden. It helps me keep my work organized.

Here is Rumple Rowe. It is named for my friends who gave me these daylilies.

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Excuse the poles and fence rings. That is my deer deterrent method.

I lowered the rings for the photo shoot.

They are usually hung on the poles around the blooms.

The deer have not been much of a problem this year…yet.

These six daylilies are extremely special to me because I picked them from hundreds of daylilies when Rumple and Rowe had a daylily farm.

They gave me these six favorites. I love each one. Each makes me pause.

Enjoy my Rumple Rowe.

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Nutmeg Spice daylily
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Peacock Alley Daylily
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Moonlit Masquerade daylily
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Daring Deception daylily
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Dixie Boy daylily
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South Seas daylily

South Seas is on the end of the row and glows whether the sun is out or not.

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This Rumple Rowe has given me joy.

So have my friendships with the Rumple and the Rowe.

Flower

 

 

 

The Plant Knows

| Flower Roberts

Plants know things. I know this because I study them.

I want to know What a Plant Knows.

I have read a book by that name written by Daniel Chamovitz.

I also took the Coursera class from Tel Aviv University by that name.

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Plants know where they are and the seasons and what they are close to.

I am trying to learn from them. They are teaching me.

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This Epiphyllum Orchid cactus never bloomed.

I researched its native habitat.

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In Brazil it hangs from the trees.

So I hung it from a tree.

See.

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It knows.

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Now it blooms every June.

Humans don’t know everything, but we can learn things

even from plants.

Especially from plants… and animals.

They are the ancients.

Flower

 

Leave Me Alone

| Flower Roberts

Yes, I’m home. Leave me alone.

I have gone in my shell, cause the world’s gone to hell.

You people have passed down a disease of the heart.

Hating folks who are different is not very smart.

Now, I’ve lost my mojo.  You’ve ruined my groove.

I’m inside my shell contemplating a move.

So, LEAVE ME ALONE!  I am not in here to stay.

When I finally emerge just GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!!

Furious Introvert Flow

P.S. Don’t touch me and don’t breathe on me. Get away from me. Damn humans!

 

 

 

Pistils Up on the Passion

| Flower Roberts

I know my garden like the back of my hand, so any little change is noticed.

On a misty, moisty morning last week, I was out with my camera and noticed the Passion flowers looked wrong.

They usually have the stamens and pistil parts in a whorl like a merry-go-round above the lovely corona.

On this morning however, the pistils were pulled up away from the stamens.

Were the pistils being prude for a particular reason?

I wish I could answer my question. I did do some research.

Some flowers are “male only” so that only the bisexual blooms set fruit to save plant resources.

All the blooms were pointing their pistils up, so I do not think this is the case here.

I checked today and all the pistil parts are down again, cozying up to the stamens and their pollen.

Ready for business with their styles spread wide.

Maybe some of you botany folks can shed light on this mystery.

Does the androgynophore  morph due to temperature, humidity, maturity…?

Flower

 

‘Good Hope’ is a Good Sign

| Flower Roberts

I was busy with my daddy this winter.

He went in the hospital on December 19 and came out of rehab on March 12.

We were lucky to get him out just as Covid-19 closed off visiting.

He is home carrying on like the cancer is gone.

I did not look at my plants in my workshop for those three months.

I watered and pruned nothing. I did not even think to check on them.

When I finally went down there most plants were dead or almost dead.

That’s okay. I have too many plants and only one daddy.

The one plant that seemed to ignore being ignored was this Clivia.

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It is a Fire Lily named Clivia miniata.  Its hybrid name is ‘Good Hope’.

I popped it outside in the shade and it is thriving.

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As I walk by it I say its name “Good Hope”.

All hope is good. Hope is always good. That’s what we all need.

Good Hope

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Brighten Your Corner

| Flower Roberts

I needed something tall and light

to brighten a dark corner in the garden.

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The corner is shady during the day.

It is also where I sit in the evenings as the sun goes down.

I thought white would be nice, so I planted a Navona lily.

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Tall, white and fragrant. Perfect.

But not all the ‘Navona’ bulbs were white.

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When the ‘Navonas’ came up about half of them were white.

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Others were a very tall yellow.

Sunny yellow with freckles. Perfect.

That corner is brighter and more beautiful than I planned.

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Sometimes you get what you need, instead of what you think you want.

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Brighten your corner.

Flow

 

The Placebo

| Flower Roberts

The Placebo’s effectiveness is based on the belief of the patient.

If the patient believes in its curative powers, the patient feels relief.

The belief caused the relief.

The Placebo alone has no power. There must be belief for it to work.

Once the patient believes in the Placebo his suffering diminishes.

Symptoms are ignored because the Placebo is “working.”

The sickness spreads as the Placebo is religiously taken.

The Placebo claims to cure everything as the peddled snake oils of the past.

The cancer claims more space as the Placebo stands guard.

Blindly believing is dangerous and deadly.

It’s time for some REAL medicine.

We are sick. We are dying.

The Placebo is a fake.

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