A Delphinium growing in a bucket

Jesus is speaking: ” As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man…

Luke 18: 26

I often grow a new plant in a bucket with holes in the bottom of course. Behind are young gladioli corms starting from marble size they take about five years to be mature.  They are getting bigger every year in the bucket behind.

Dreaming buds still closed on top

Elivated above its

Leaves of

Pleasing soft whitegreen with

Horns like antlers

In disarray

Neatly held dolphin shaped flowers

In chronogical order

Unbelievably peachpinklemonwhite

My garden’s plant in a bucket.

The name Delphinium comes from the Greek word delphinion which means dolphin. Dioscorides said the plant got its name because of its dolphin shaped flower but so who was Dioscorides. He was the surgeon to the Roman empra Nero and during his travels with Nero he took the opportunity to study the features, distribution and medicinal properties of many plants and minerals. He was born in AD 40 and is known as “the father of pharmacogrossy”. He is the author of De Materia Medica, a 5 volume Greek encyclopedia. Here is something Dioscorides said:

Nature will never follow people but people will have to follow the laws of nature

Dioscorides

God said: Let us make man in our image , after our likeness, and let them have dominion over all the earth…

Genesis 1: 26,27

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And GOD was sorry He had made man on the earth, and this grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said I will destroy man that I have created and all creatures. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord…

Genesis 6 : 5-8

This post has travelled in time and literally more than I planned.

I hope your day is good.

Sandy 🙂