Botanical Colloquium

They are everywhere, at home and abroad

they span the world, transfixed at the sight of

a rare bloom, ecstatic at the thought of the next

season, confident in nature and bolstered by

the comforting thought that engaging their

environment is vital to their very existence

transforming the landscape in step with the

mistress of us all, part of a sorority, a vast

fraternity of like-minded individuals viewing

themselves as gardeners, storing in memory

plants that flower and those whose foliage

alone sends them into rhapsodic praise of all

vegetation that emerges from the same source

as us all. From the mundane to the exotic, the

pedestrian to the sublime their textures, form

fragrance and colour entrance and beguile. Once

seen always remembered the slow fire of lust

focusing on those temptations that must be

acquired to grace one's own garden, a universal

trait by which one host of a garden recognizes

another for instant rapport in familiarity. From

my priceless patch of earth to yours, welcome!

Come, let's consult, my friend, teach me...