This Week's Featured Flowers

 Magenta Hedgehog Cactus Blossom

 

Penstemon "Firebird" Blossom

 Indian Paintbrush Blossom

Mourning Cloak Butterfly on Geranium

The Flowers
by Robert Louis Stevenson 

All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames -
These must all be fairy names!

Tiny woods below whose boughs
Shady fairies weave a house;
Tiny treetops, rose or thyme,
Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grownup people's trees,
But the fairest woods are these;
Where, if I were not so tall,
I should live for good and all.