The Garden Klatch

Ask any devoted gardener, the life
of a cherished garden is like that of a
socialite, celebrated for its beauty
rich with an abundance of greenery
and all the colours of a particularly
exuberant rainbow, blessed with divine
scents and an architecture of surpassing 
natural design. Admirers of celebrity
acknowledge the status of gardens as
symbols of nature's supreme mastery
over all that she has created echoed
in every garden that care and love has
cossetted and beseeched to be on its
best behaviour and report the presence
of unwanted guests that mar the bloom
of roses and spread pestilence on tender
shoots. Welcoming instead with the
open arms of admiration the winged
perpetual-motion creature that is a
hummingbird as it flits swiftly from
the open throat of one flower to the
next alongside bees and butterflies and
fragile-winged Dragonflies perching
delicately on flowerbuds, a lively
gathering of the garden's essential 
companions basking in its embrace.