By Nature Grown - Published in Cambridge News 21 5 2013

Flowering Verges

Spare a thought for the verge

As you pass by on your way

                      You’ll find its often a colourful surge                       

Of wildflowers enhancing your day

Cushions of violets in  blue and in white
Rosettes of primroses spangle the bank
Clusters of cowslips catching the light
And celandines grow up the flank.

The golden suns of dandelions

Their faces turned toward the sky

A sheet of shining buttercups

Reflect the sun as you go by

There’s cowparsley – the Queen Anne’s lace

 That foams the edge along the hedge

                         There’s alkanet and comfrey bloom                          

                                 And bluebells sway with slender grace                                     

                             In billowing drifts moon daisies blow                                 

Cascading down the embankment   

In great glistening fields of snow

Rippled by rush of the trucks as they go  

The fiery spikes of willow herb

Flames  later on when summer’s here

             And cranesbills cups of tender blue               

That flowers all along the kerb

These flowers are free for all to see

And all of these by nature grown

Surely it must be a crime
If these are by the council mown...