With many ash trees lost in our area, the landscape will take time to recover and learn a new beauty. I have written about the loss of our ash tree, and the new beauty with the way hosta plants grow around the tree stump.
Posts about ash trees:
Ash Firewood Done – May 16, 2019 – “Work and photo are by Karl.”
Hosta and Ash Tree Stump – May 27, 2019 – with photo
Seasons – My poem on October 24, 2019
Errands and Ash Trees – April 16, 2022
late August
perennial gardens
all that has been achieved
colors of flowers
past for a time
plants green and rain
all that is present
and will renew
and return
another time
Poem today
Hosta – August 20, 2016
Ellen Grace Olinger
Hosta by Lake Michigan
Garden Journal
July 21, 2020
Photos by Karl
once the tree grew tall
before the Emerald Ash Borer
and then a storm
hosta plants
grew green again
around the stump
in Spring
they grew large
and flowered well
so blessed by rain
and a red begonia planter
now there is an
orange pumpkin
on the ash tree stump
and hosta leaves are gold
in the brilliant morning sun
Ellen Grace Olinger
Flowers from a planter that we bought on sale at Menards in Sheboygan. We went there for supplies, as Karl completed a major plumbing repair here this weekend.
The previous three photos show hosta and ferns by the side of our beloved old house.
Photos are by Karl today.
early morning
hosta flowers grow
above the windowsill
Ellen Grace Olinger
Garden Journal
July 2, 2019
To appreciate the growth – and we’ve had a lot of rain – here are two Spring photos.
May 10, 2019
May 27, 2019
My poem from May 24, 2019:
hosta plants grow
around the ash tree stump
an abundance of health
and new green
as if to say
we knew you would not
last the storm
we are here
there is new beauty now
new hope and a new time
And again today, plus hawkweed after rain in the same area of the yard.
Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin 