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From Yolanda Renee and Denise Covey we have this lovely challenge.

The Gardens prompt is all about creativity. What picture comes to mind when you hear the word 'garden' - the spectacular beauty of carefully landscaped tiers – the fresh delights of a new snowfall on frozen branches – or the haunting beauty of shadows and wilted plants at dusk on a fall night. 

Please share your poetry, photography, artistry, or writing skills in a flash fiction piece inspired by a garden!

Your choice of medium, genre, word count (1000 maximum) and how the prompt inspires you!

When I saw this challenge I immediately thought of Robert Louis Stevenson's lovely book, 

A Child's Garden of Verses and the poem, The Flowers.

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 tree-tops, rose or thyme,

Where the braver fairies climb!

Fair are grown-up people's trees,

But the fairest woods are these;

Where, if I were not so tall,

I should live for good and all.

When I recovered my exceptionally worn out book, I drew this for the front cover, copying it from the above illustration.

Here are some photos which I hope will delight and please the eye.

Butterfly on Esperanza. 

 Bee on Bluebonnet

Fields of Gold

Gladiola

Yellow Iris

Blue Iris

Along with A Child's Garden of Verses, The Secret Garden holds a special place in my heart.

Go HERE to see how others have been inspired by this garden prompt.

Do you have a favorite book, poem, picture or painting about gardens? Have you ever been to a formal or famous botanical garden?