Sugar coated gladioli
in sweet shop colours.
bubble gum pink & sherbert yellow
flame red crocosmia
dart a warning to leave potentilla alone
poor old potus
bullied by all the other plants in the garden.
"doing my best ain't I"
"You're just big and fat and budding and over there"
shouted the buddleia
"At least they don't call me the butterfly bush or elephants' trunk"
that soon shut the brash bugger up.
The lily-livered lavender was looking good this year.
The chameleon like camellia however was crap,
flowering one year and not bothering the next.
The sedum was on the verge of turning red,
the hydrangea was screaming like a Hollywood starlet
"hydrate me, hydrate me"
but the drought had come.
Autumn then Winter crowds in
and the competition is over for another year.
My money is on the lilac to bloom first next Spring.
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