Flower for the Day Spiderwort 5-29-24

Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) has been a reliable addition to our gardens for many years. 

It comes in a blue 

and a delicate white.

        Spiderwort is a prairie flower, as ethereal is it is enduring.

The name is a consequence of its long slender leaves that break suddenly downward.

                      mimicking the legs of crouching spider.

    It rises at the end of May in the prairies and savanna's, in a universe all its own,

a small galaxy of blue starlike flowers that form the constellation of the universe of the Crouching Spider.

         Unlike celestial bodies that survive in the billions, for billions of years,

the stars of the Crouching Spider number only a few and shimmer for just a few hours.

            Coinciding with earth's star, they emerge, not with a bang,

     but slowly materialize from a golden hot centering three purple points.

                           

                                    As the sun grows high in the sky,

                            they gradually collapse into deep blue planets.

              Yet tomorrow morning, and for thirty or more turns of Earth,

You may gaze into the prairie universe to witness the reemergence of the Crouching Spider

                                                 and the creation of new worlds.

Mike MacDonald