Flower for the Day Chrysanthemum 10-26-2020

For years I tried to have chrysanthemums in my garden. They just never came back the next year.

I got tired of digging the dead bodies out in the spring and admitted that just putting them in a container 

worked for me.

Chrysanthemums are in the aster Family. They are related to all my favorites: dahlias, sunflowers, marigolds, zinnias, and cosmos. Each bloom is made up of hundreds of tiny flowers called florets.

                 Haiku

              gentle rain

scent of the seedbed turning

           a deeper brown

Katrina Shepherd

from Before the Sirocco (NZPS,2008)