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Best Gardening Poems

Below are the all-time best Gardening poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gardening poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Gardening
Started in lockdown when a little bored,
with tender care planted hundreds of seeds.
To create a garden to be adored,
spent days removing the most ugly weeds.

Bought...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gardening, garden,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Gardening Time, Everybody
Now that spring has arrived on the scene
to get out in the garden I'm keen
can't let one more day pass
without cutting the grass
since the light...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gardening, garden, humor, spring,
Form: Limerick
The A-Z of Gardening - Contest
A flower beginning with A is easy you see, an Aster I would sow
Bluebells of every colour and size in most gardens grow

Colourful  Cornflower...

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Categories: gardening, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Ignorance Is Overrated
Some people take to Facebook
In an effort to create
A safe and pleasant habitat
Unfriending those who wish debate.
But still rile against a college chum
Who's not lost...

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Categories: gardening, growth, humor, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Red Wheelbarrow
How I loved spending a week of the summer holidays with my grandparents. Gramps would come and pick me up in his old pick- up...

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Categories: gardening, childhood, garden, grandparents, memory,
Form: Haibun



Eileen
Eileen was born 80 1/2 years ago
on the first day of winter on the ground a bit of snow
with a twinkle in her eyes and...

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Categories: gardening, for her, mom, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond the Cemetery Gate
Often, I open the cemetery gate to visit mother,
"I took the bus mother, the scenery was lovely;
 I brought you a red rose from my...

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Categories: gardening, mother daughter,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Oh, Turn It Off

When Dad passed I moved home with Mom,
       We were roommates at first;
Shopping, lunching, gardening, it was fun,
There were...

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Categories: gardening, death, mother daughter, sick,
Form: Verse
Premium Member November Dreams
November dreams of beauty of my garden in springtime,
planning horticultural fancies my garden has never grown.
Dreaming of it in November is easy part of gardening....

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Categories: gardening, garden,
Form: Sijo
Loose Me Asap
Gardening in a dress
Figured it would be nice and breezy
A red wasp had his way with my back side easy

One little wasp caused alot of...

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Categories: gardening, funny, life
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gardener
 "Horticulture is a groping in the dark
into the obscure and unfamiliar " James Tate,
from his poem, The Definition Of Gardening
________________

There is an art to...

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Categories: gardening, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy 100th Birthday - a Time To 'Re Joyce'
Poetry

Aged eighty Joyce started to write
Her poems my senses ignite
Imagery so divine
I just wish it was mine
Great poetry brings such delight

Making Fudge

Joyce really loves making...

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Categories: gardening, birthday, celebration, poetess, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mama, My Only Mama
Mama, I saw you in my dreams.. 
                 ...

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Categories: gardening, absence, life, love, mom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member King Cyrus the Great
CYRUS II - THE GREAT

So; here comes the story of that, King Cyrus the Great 
Whose history for some of us; is still well up...

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Categories: gardening, history, leadership, literature, word
Form: Epic
Premium Member Your Garden
I planted a thought in my brain
Unattended it grew with the rain
I had planted it like a seed
It grew like a dandelion weed

The root grew...

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Categories: gardening, philosophy, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs