Freesia Lactea, milky white,

enjoys the feel of full sunlight.

Sets her roots in well-drained loam

to spread its scent around her home,

enticing bees to pause their flight.

 

Sweet Pea, known as Gwendoline,

grows quite tall on stems so thin.

Magenta-pink her fragrant flowers,

wondrous sight that never sours,

dappled shade for thriving in.

 

Hydrangea is a bushy shrub

for flower beds or courtyard tub.

Pink or blue the blooms you’ll see,

resolved by soil acidity

a test that many gardeners flub.

 

Common vetch grows like a weed

often used for cattle feed.

Purple flowers that it musters

gathering in tight-knit clusters

pretty, useful plant indeed.

 

And last, the daffodil perchance,

that Wordsworth’s poetry enhanced,

and still, when growing in a crowd,

can almost make you cry out loud

to join with them in sprightly dance.

 

** There was a prompt to write factually about flowers for today.