Today’s prompt word for JusJoJan is plants and it comes from J-Dub,

I am quite sure I annoy plants. But it’s not my fault. I really try to get them to grow in my garden and to be fair some of them oblige but others no matter how nicely I speak to them simply do not comply with my wishes. 

I mean how hard can it be for a tomato to grow in a lovely fertile vegetable patch with a sturdy frame to climb on? And yet it yells – no – I don’t like this spot and drops a few rotten fruits and then expires!

Then when I am far from home, out in the bush, and even in the desert, there are plants all over the place mocking me. Nobody feeds or waters them yet there they are in all their beautiful glory creating a wonderful display. Sometimes there isn’t a grain of soil in sight and yet a tree will be sprouting from a rock! 

Then take my lawn – why oh why with all the money spent on it won’t the grass grow lush and green where I want it. Oh no, instead it sprouts up through the paving cracks and even on the tar road! 

I swear plants have minds of their own. We have friends who live on an eco estate and they’re not allowed to garden. The ‘garden’ they have is all-natural, not planted by an interfering homo sapien and it is beautiful. There is no lawn so there is no mowing either. I can’t quite leave my garden to do its own thing here but I do make sure I put in indigenous plants and luckily most of them do well because they thrive on neglect. So perhaps I should give up on the lawn and let the wildflowers take over!