mercredi 23 septembre 2009

Forgotten gardens

 
shedding hope as seeds, time will tell


This was not a garden this year. Maybe the one before and these plants are leftovers of some forgotten plan. Oddly they went as far as a whole year on their own. Volunteers out of unconcern. Garden of will.

Falling apart and about, seeding or sending the last flags of colors, plants are shedding themselves of summer. Neglect is the season’s fashion, tired wishes, running light.


later flowers


Oregano is it? I was in a rush and now lasy, I’m not sure. It blooms long and thorough even in unpromising setting. But the plant that “delights in the mountain”, or is it the “mountain’s delight” or the “mountainer’s delight” (latinised greek can be quite tricky...) always manages.

The wiry Coreopsis is named for its ressemblance to a... bedbug... I would’nt know! Or I would, if my bed was bugged by such creature...chocolate, saffron and gold. Must be the seeds that are implied.

With that children’s name the plant is well loved. Everybody loves dragons, even if they snap! Antirrhinum “like a nose” or “against the nose” as children get down to it, stick their nose in the flower... and feel the slight bite of the snow white snapdragon.

Even lightly, flowers bite...


1 commentaire:

  1. Sorry I am " french " !

    Ne soyez pas trop mélancolique de cette perte "saisonnière ", même si je vous comprends. Hé Monsieur Latour,pourquoi ne pas écrire " Un vrai beau mémoire " destiné à la ville de Montréal un " mémoire " issu de toutes vos recherches. vos " trouvailles ", la réalité de la flore "sauvage " de Montréal dont/que plusieurs Montréalais apprécie et que je pense que les "tondeuses syndiquées " en outre s'en balancent.

    Vous avez beaucoup à " dire " et à" apprendre " à ces élus de la ville. N'en restez pas là
    Monsieur Latour, pensez à " ce mémoire "écrit sur TOUT ce que vous savez et avez appris sur et dans les terres/lopins et quoi d'autre des" jardins imprévus et admirés de Montréal .

    Je quitte pour l'Andalousie quelques jours.

    G.Bergeron

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