Growing Alphabet

Angelica – Angelica archanglica

Glossy leaves sweet scented, aromatic such, sugar coated , delicate, decorative remembrance of childhood devoid of mindfulness, symphony of senses re-enacted. Scent of celebration cake long passed. Candy stick – exotic pleasure rare, refined sherbet dusted delight drawn from shaded garden of childhood delight.

Borage – Borage officinalis

Blue starred beauty, friend of the sun, welcomer intoxicant of bees, drive away sadness sweet alloy, fresh bears hope of gladness drawn from sky wide horizon seasoning grace, given to rich summer harvest.

Chamomile – Anthemicaria chamomilla

Soft sedate, scented delicate feathers coalesce joy senses harbinger of calm, savour of earth a grace in hope from wide world’s frenzy, restorative white petals gleam serene.

Dandelion – Taraxacum officinalis

Dan de lion dance gossamer zephyr drawn, sing abundant yet bitter harvest, called weed for success, bright golden eye bejewelled long summer days, profusion glisters among the green, long known summer song extant tonic to raise the heart from melancholy.

Elder Sambucus nigra

Glow white gentle floats summer light gloaming gives place to violet fruitfulness. Somnolent lushness Autumnal bounty sweet cascade of blessing champaign light lifted thrown off fatigue.

Feverfew – Tanecetum parthenium

Emerald glow risen to bright sun, dials white dance a tonic light, downy clump to thank sweet summer float day sprung modest perennial ease of gangling nerve with gentle calm.

Germander – Teucrium aroanum

Sweet evergreen recumbent joyed by purple floret light. Through frost has stood white haired twigs glinted in ice touch low hug to earth you rise again for summer praise.

Hawthorn – Crataegus oxycantha

Bread and cheese, bread and cheese, May white snow laden sweet infusion, joy ghost cloud bless spring. Red berries ripe sing nature bounty, gentle harvest binds aeons far in hedge bounty uncommon joy.

Indian bean tree – Catalpa bigjonioides

Bronze hue burning bright enjoin in white, over spreading green delight, waits harvest of pendant pods, Wide boughs spread, exotic touch to soft summer rains.

Juniper – Juniperus communis

Aromatic sentential sweet pine bark harvest rich berries scent flavour glory of Autumnal days. Needle-like leaf to lighten heart, with gloss hardy unyielding against winter frost. High moor song sustaining to wide cyan sky, pinioned by curlew call, swept on upland breeze to far horizon urgent sound scape of season wrapped softness joy to the soul.

Knapweed – Centaurea cyanus

Slender ray of petals blue, rise above greyed green lance shaped leaves, to dance blue clouds into Autumn sweet gathers armfuls drawn summer homeward, sing in the harvest drops of gold prance soft in deep velvet glistening crimson harvest moon full blown glow . Cast shadows of past slow meted out harvesters old sheaves gaunt stand in chorus of weary hooves.

Lavender – Lavendula officinalis

Cloud of blue haze grey green fragrant joy soothing the soul. Haunt of bees drawing forth aroma nectar inimitable honeyed taste, remembrance of past flows softly in present sun yields hope to gentle air.

Marigold – Calendula officinalis

Golden aroma brightener of day, sweet heads nod slow to the sun, glow drawn bees your tincture rust to Autumnal relief for the soul. Radiate your favours piquant spice of hearth and home restoring in massed rank of bobbing heads.

Nasturtuim – Tropaeoluim majus

Scramble you among the green, trumpet crimson fade to gold. Salad of summer long sharpness awaken, to enliven, lift of appetite, bright languorous to sing joy for life days bright.

Oregon grape – Mahomia aquifolium

Spring bright, gold sing reminder of light prelude grace greet rising sun, waken heart fragrant do your bells ring. Evergreen tinged crimson sweet hope the winter days mark leaves glister frost rimmed.

Pansy – Heartsease – Viola tricolor

Sweet face combine variegation smile blaze white, gold royal gleam purple. Miniature majesty profusion dance the heart to ease, wrapped joyful green long loved though small blessed to sight the summer through.

Quince – Cydonia oblonga

Generous tree bust forth pale pink five petal perfection, culmination of spring fragrance consummated in golden fruit enlightened glad preserve to raise winter day in reminiscent of summer bounty essence drawn encapsulated harvest.

Rosemary – Rosmarinus officinalis

Haunt of bees among your mauve florets drawn hypnotised in aromatic sway dew of the sea wrapped dark green wreaths your arching boughs a revere conflated flowing on each zephyr fine to calm the heart in joy soul benign.

Sage – Salvia officinalis

Greyed joy of green aroma soaks up the sun to raise beauty in blue cast back the wind revere of precious time down long years to summer past remembrance now dissolved in far horizon deep as gentle breeze dances anew along ancient rivers of the mind

Thyme – Thymus vulgaris

Savour remembered tumbles over stones aroma floats warm sweet lawn purple cloud. Song of Mediterranean hillsides refracted in northern summer glow sonorous captor of memorised bees fragrance folded nectar lulled create luxurious natures bounty reminiscent summer orb sweet tincture of flowers.

Umbrella Pine – Pinus pinia

Soft spreading boughs dip in velvet green canopy casting blue hue to wide horizon your shade holding promise of sweet cones in spherical hue natures bounty rich reward draws aroma of highlands in year round dream.

Violet – Viola odorata

Fragrant gentle heart of chill season turning violet faces to returning sun, to carry the heart remembrance of aeons past joy to the soul in sweet savour long cherished transit of seasons joyfully marked.

Witchhazel – Hamamelis virginiana

Sun flowers greet autumnal air with fragrant melody four petalled sweetness sing the frost down gild the golden leaves a carpet gentle returns to earth with summer promise green blazed in glory Autumn to shine

Xeranthemum – Immortelle armuum

Soft dance your flowers papery delicacy purple reach for summer sun, gathered dried to draw everlasting brightness to the winter tide held in each desiccated petal crisply proportioned darkest gloom to renounce.

Yarrow – Achillea millefoluim

Tall you stand soldierly in meadow upturned flowers announcing the sun. filigree of leaves deep ferny topped in dense umbels of white aromatic summer dance down the millennia on warm zephyrs

Zigzag bamboo – Phyllost achysflexuisa

Slender towering high stems ageing black turning side to side veering alternately in memoriam of long abandoned fortifications reaching ever green to sky a forest chanting rustles through the chill of winter a new triumph of the far horizon