Many of the perennial plants in Mars and my gardens are
“rescues” – plants that I have pulled out of abandoned or about to be abandoned
public and private gardens, and
then replanted in our land. The good news is
they are free. The bad news is that I
frequently have not a clue as to what they are.
Such was the
case of a flower I saved from the yard of a new homeowner who “just wanted the
stuff out of there!” We took a picture
and “email blasted” it to several gardening friends who, by consensus,
identified it as Gooseneck Loosestrife (Lysimachia clethroides for you
classicists).
Interestingly,
I had written the last two lines of this haiku before I knew what its subject
matter was called. But I could not come
up with an opening phrase. Then, after I learned the flower's identity, I found the beginning five syllables in the White
Flower Farm online catalog’s description of the plant.
Gooseneck Loosestrife
Slender arching spikes
Like a flock of flower swans
Tethered to the earth.
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