Urban Vegetation

New owners purchased the property where I've lived for over 17 years. They call themselves re-branding the place, so they gave it a new name with Gardens in it. To match the name they tried to spruce up the tiny flower beds in the front of each ground floor unit. This was welcomed but the flower beds quickly died, they refused to take care of them.

Some people had already created beautiful flower beds which they decided to destroy to make their own creations. These creations were sad, sorry excuses for flower bedding. To make it worse they refused to take care of them, over the years they even stopped repairing broken items within the actual apartment units as well.

When summer came around some of the flower beds plants and vegetation started changing. The plants are all different but in some areas there have grown some strange things that have made interesting photos. I have no idea what they are and was hoping to identify them using a plant application that I downloaded onto my phone.

The bees are loving the new flowering plants, they are always hovering over a few of the flower beds. Not all of them have the same exact flowering plants or vegetation either. Which makes morning walks very interesting. Soon winter will come and all these flowering plants will be gone and next year who knows what will bloom in their place.

What will I do when snows covered these flower beds? What beauty will I see that I can photograph like these blooming wonders bursting full of color and surprise. Nothing can compare to their charm, what can decorate the world better than blooming portraits of color? Winter is so cold, lonely, sad for me, I will be so terrified when left without these wondrous sites.

How will I be able to seek peace on my gentle lonely journey to seek solace? Who will be there for me when it's so cold, dark and scary outside. Nature will be asleep, covered away from me and everyone like me who cries because we're all alone? Nature has been my comfort since I was a child my parents didn't mind telling me how much they didn't want me or how my sister was the favorite of my father and now my mother since he's gone.

Now gone too will be my blooms of hope. I wish that I'll be out of here before the shorter days come around, back to where Africa or Southeast Asia where beaches are portraits that belong in frames on the walls of life. Where every where you look theres a screen saver view. I know I won't thieve like the bees but I also won't wither like the leaves, I need to see the beauty to outweigh the ugly inside my brain. I want the gardens to flower forever and ever.

Please God I hope I'm able to fly away before winters curtains cover the eastern coast. Back to where I can see feel the sun on my skin, the trees in bloom, the oceans waves moving all around me. I need to be in a place where I can pretend to be whole again, at least where it is beautiful and my tears don't flow as often. I want my garden to never stop flowering, if only my life was flowering too. I want to live and bloom like these blossoms of nature, God bring beauty into my life forever and ever!

If you can identify any I would love for your help, comment if you know any of the names?

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