Plant in a bottle

#Napowrimo #Nature #Writeclub Grown from a seed and given room to play the small plant is growing up tall teachers check daily and give it a feed watered by the schoolchildren as part of their day and sitting by a window where the sun shines bright they wonder to give the gardener a call to …

In the beginning….

#writeclub #garden Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com It started as a plot of land owned by a farmer – who used it as fodder for his cows and sheep in the wintertime Fencing went up as the cows and sheep moved into another field and a “For sale” Sign rose up Nearby cottage owners …

Taken over

#Horror beware, meat eaters the times they are a changin’ your local supermercado is under new management and things they’re re-arranging see you won’t find chicken’s in the frozen isle you’ll find them on a grass bank by the store fruit and veg are all been sown and the stuff in the store has all …

Growth

#fowc #socs #growth Getting up at sunlight reacting to the suns warmth out pop the little seedlings who were sleeping away after taking refreshment in the border – now, there having a wail of a time – reaching for the sunshine Seedlings : Painting from stock art by inky

Popcorn Plant

#Writeclub #Popcorn popcorn plant (illustration by inky) Confusion reigned among the staffin the garden centreCuriously, the conkers they were growingfor selling in pots in the greenhousehad grown, no sprouted….no rocketedinto something a little more colourfula little more knobbly and a little more exotica lot more tropical and a little less greeni mean – leaves the …

Asparagus

#CYW #Coloryourworld #Asparagus A piece by inky with a little bit of art….. popping up out of the ground…..(created by Inky from a Wikipedia image)The woody stalkpopped up from the earthy soiland began a raceSeven other green spearsheaded headlong to the sunas the flowers watchedPrize to the Victor?they’re Basted in Butter, On Silver Salvers

Soil

      Soil source of growth our garden plants depend on it its home for all sorts of life like worms, beetles and ants   such an important base needs nutrients on certain mornings , water and fertiliser is added , to let the seedlings and bulbs lift their flowers into the sky and …