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In A Cuban Garden
by Sara Teasdale
Hibiscus flowers are cups of fire,
(Love me, my lover, life will not stay)
The bright poinsettia shakes in the wind,
A scarlet leaf is blowing away.
A lizard lifts his head and listens-
Kiss me before the noon goes by,
Here in the shade of the cebia hide me
From the great black vulture circling the sky.
So it's not a Cuban garden, rather a visit to Molbaks but I better understand Teasdale's image now!
Quintessentially exotic!
ReplyDeleteFor a moment on that August day, it felt as if I were in the tropics.
DeleteI must get some hibiscus! I love Fire!
ReplyDeleteCareful. They say that those who play with fire will get burned. Suppose in this case, that would be a good thing.
DeleteTropical Hibiscus are so yummy! What a color!
ReplyDeleteThe sun shining through them really helped and looking at that blue sky in the picture was nice after all the rain we've had lately.
DeleteGreat pictures of a wonderful plant!
ReplyDeleteThank you Tatyana!
DeleteMore of this! I love this poetry/plant porn combo!
ReplyDeleteI'll work on doing more just for you Heather!
DeleteHow amazing that one of your images actually had a bird circling up above! Beautiful choice of Hibiscus!
ReplyDeletewasn't that a nice stroke of luck? I love seeing these at nurseries and am even tempted to bring them home sometimes but I'm pretty bad with house plants. Tender succulents are a pretty good bet for me because they like to be neglected in the winter.
DeleteOh that blue sky...(okay the plant is pretty gorgeous too!)
ReplyDeleteI miss the blue sky and warmth already! I don't so much mind rain but these cooler days...sigh.
DeleteLovely hibiscus! Happy Wednesday, Peter!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Satu! Happy Thursday to you!
DeleteGorgeous, their bright colors are always so striking. Cups of fire is such a beautiful image.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of Teasdale's poetry because she paints beautiful word pictures!
DeleteThat shot looking up at the flowers with the light shining through the petals...divine!
ReplyDeleteWas very lucky to catch the light doing that!
DeleteThere are the cups of fire, very elegant, bring on the vulture!
ReplyDeleteDo you prefer your vulture roasted or fried?
DeleteGreat match of plant and poetry!
ReplyDeleteWorked out well to catch the hibiscus with the sun shining through them. It made me instantly think of the Teasdale poem!
DeleteBeautiful! If I lived a little further south, I would grow them for sure! I'm thinking about planting some Rose Mallow Hibiscus (H. moscheutos) one of these days. They're lovely, too, and they're hardy to zone 4 or 5.
ReplyDeleteRose of Sharon is also a hardy hibiscus flowered beauty. There are lots of great hibiscus that cold climate gardeners can grow much better than we can in our corner of soggy zone 8.
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