Blues and purples

This started as a piece on how certain blues in flowers almost glow when the sun is barely setting.  Clearly it didn*t go there.  Kinda like the clematis, almost not trainable in its growth.  A few years ago we began collecting metal sculptures for the yard, welded-together pieces of farm implements, painted with weather-durable paint.  The purple dog is now placed next to the rhubarb.

In flowers

I favor

The blues and purples.

They grab my attention

Every time.

Today the blue wild indigo

Thrives in the back yard,

Graces the front table

With blue-purple blossomed curves.

The lobelia

Promises accent

In the front planters.

The clematis of unknown origin

Will show purple

In late June.

This year it is barely trainable

With its vines and tendrils.

This year

The clematis spans two columns.

I have added more garden twine

For its growth.

Even the thistle

Has perfect purple top-knots

If allowed to grow.

There is low purple-flowered growth

Next to the rhubarb,

Unidentified

In the vegetable bed.

The bed no longer harbors vegetables.

Instead it holds the rhubarb,

A leggy elderberry bush,

And our painted purple metal dog sculpture.

The sculpture marks the garden

As a piece of art.