Katie Michaelson
The Daily Cuppa
Published in
Jun 27, 2022

Graceful branches, wearing pretty lavender dancing skirts, arch along the edges of my tiny garden

Bellflowers. Photo by Katie Michaelson.

I’d not seen flowers like these before. They were growing all around my 120-year-old home when I purchased it 22 years ago.

I’d pick bouquets of them and fill vases. I tended them carefully but could never find out what kind of flower they were.

After a time they filled my lawn and sprang from every crack. I looked in all my flower and…

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Katie Michaelson
The Daily Cuppa

I’m a retired therapist who specialised in parenting. I write on the edge of verse and prose about plants and people and simple things.