Ground Cover 4-10-23

My ground cover stays through the winter. With warmth and water it blooms. I enjoy periwinkle (Vinca minor). It stays green and it doesn’t climb trees. Here are two different colors. This is my mainstay. It becomes a carpet of blue.

And a different variety.

Creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera) is in the gnome garden. Also called moss phlox it is in the family Plemoniaceae. Stolon is Latin for rooting runner. The leaves brown up in the winter but green early on.

Everything that lives about us by Emile Verhaeren Everything that lives about us in the fragile and gentle light, frail grasses, tender branches, hollyhocks, and the shadow that brushes them lightly by, and the wind that knots them, and the singing and hopping birds that swarm riotously in the sun like clusters of jewels,— everything that lives in the fine ruddy garden loves us artlessly, and we—we love everything. We worship the lilies we see growing; and the tall sunflowers, brighter than the Nadir— circles surrounded by petals of flames—burn our souls through their glow. The simplest flowers, the phlox and the lilac, grow along the walls among the feverfew, to be nearer to our footsteps; and the involuntary weeds in the turf over which we have passed open their eyes wet with dew. And we live thus with the flowers and the grass, simple and pure, glowing and exalted, lost in our love, like the sheaves in the gold of the corn, and proudly allowing the imperious summer to pierce our bodies, our hearts and our two wills with its full brightness.