poem of the day May 9 

Do legacy plants have a right

to be part of the landscape?

Part of a homestead yard?

This rag tag inherited 

collection of Plants

handed down

through families 

Brought to new homes

generation after generation 

are a bridge from the past

I have plants in my own family 

passed down

from property to property

from father to son

since long before the civil war

Pachysandra I can trace 

back to Brooklyn 1840's

Forsythia  too and

Lilies of the the valley

came from Mineola where

Dead Nettle and Wild Onions

hitched rides and found

their way to me via Connecticut 

They are part of my journey

but do I pass these plants on

to the next family home

knowing all are invasive

to various degrees?