The geums and the swallows have arrived at the same time. I say swallows, but it was just one at first, a lone male harbinger chittering to himself as he assessed the state of last year’s nests in the garage. Simultaneously, an extensive patch of seedlings under a hibiscus had a growth spurt and announced themselves to be not, as I had thought, self-seeded wild strawberry, but an absolute riot, a US-campus-protest’s-worth, of wood avens. Aka Geum urbanum.
16 May 2024, The Tablet
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