A bottle garden adorns like the most elegant rose
Horticulturists’ pride featured in most writers’ prose
Crafted by the youngest ambidextrous botanist
Whose prowess blooms far beyond the cloud’s mist.
A terrarium intricately built from a crystal- clear bottle,
Coco fibers, variety of bijou stones, rocks and pebbles;
Charcoals, moss, ferns, tiny plants and worm castings,
Dry barks and many more for creative miniature gardening.
ISTS - NEVER MIND THE OLOGIES
agriculturists, working the land for sustenance
horticulturists cultivation of a magic garden flower
bio-cultureists landscape ecology, how to finance
aquaculturists cultivation of seaweed to devour
entomologists, don’t you jus love the creepy crawlies
ornithologists their up there with our feather friends, the birds
botanists, always on their knees, which suffer from the poorlies
palaeontologists, always finding fossils, dinosaurs and their turds
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The rhododendron is my state flower.
In nature its blossom is pink,
But horticulturists have made the bloom
Any color of which you can think.
I go to the garden store to buy one,
To plant in my garden at home.
I take much longer to choose my new plant
Than I do in writing this poem.
"It will grow very fast " the salesman said,
"And blossom in purple and red."
Written: April 18, 2016
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