Flower for the Day Trumpet Vine 9-5-26

> > Our trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) thrives even in our dreadfully hot dry weather.It is also called hummingbird vine, trumpet creeper, and cow itch vine. It is slightly invasive but that gives me a reason to get some exercise pulling it out. > Campsis is a native genus of flowering plants which are vigorous deciduous perennial climbers which cling to a wall by aerial roots and which produce large trumpet shaped flowers. >  > > Here is a poem by Rumi which addresses the most recent poem I sent. > >> The Field >> >> Out beyond ideas of wrong- >> doing and right-doing >> there is a field. >> I’ll meet you there. >> >> When the soul lies down >> in that grass, >> the world is too full to talk about. >> Ideas, language, even >> the phrase, “each other”, >> doesn’t make sense. >> >> The Essential Rumi > > > > >