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Rhubarb blossoms
Showy strangers
Iris and peony
Hiccup, then
Sing welcome
Frank J. Tassone is today’s host of dVerse. Frank says:
Write a five (5)-line Japanese-form poem of your choice: tanka, kyoka or gogyohka.
I’ve never seen rhubarb blossoms – aren’t they amazing! No wonder Iris and peony
hiccuped!
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First time here also! Yes, at first that was one giant enclosed bulb that began to rise.
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A delightful tribute, Jade! 🙂
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Thank you, Frank, I had to show off the showy strangers 🙂
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They are awesome.
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They sure are interesting looking.
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🌺🌹🌷
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I love how the iris and peony hiccupped Lisa, it’s such a surprise how quickly rhubarb blossoms can emerge 🌺
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Yes it is!
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Ha Ha! With the bouts of cold they probably shiver also! Nicely done!
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lol funny Dwight 🙂
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I’ve also never seem rhubarb blossom. Odd seeing as my parents grew it all though my childhood.
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It’s new to the yard and it was a big surprise to see it bloom.
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I’m still struggling to get my rhubarb to settle in. Can take up to three years to really root itself apparently. Just celebrating each day I don’t kill it at the moment.
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wow, I have never seen such blossoms, awesome!
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It is pretty awesome 🙂
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It seems like in the 50’s folks ate more rhubarb. My mother made a delicious rhubarb/strawberry pie.
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My grandma used to make rhubary/strawberry pie which I want to make so I bought the plant last year. It appeared to die over the summer, which then surprised me when it sprouted this spring. Then this blossom!
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I’ve never seen rhubarb blossoms that I recall. Hiccup-worthy indeed!
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🙂
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I like how the iris and peony hiccup.
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Thank you, Frank.
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I think gardens are always ready to welcome new residents. (K)
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Agreed ❤
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Made me think of my mother’s rhubarb pie and its tart sweetness!
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I plan on making a pie once the strawberries are in. I remember grandma making it using the rhubarb from her patch. She made sassafrass tea also 🙂
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I’ve never seen a rhubarb in bloom.
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Pretty neat isn’t it.
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I have a feeling you should cut it down before it seeds – if you are a rhubarb grower, rather than a rhubarb flower grower! I’ve always cut mine down because they take energy from the stem and leaf production. Then I googled it to make sure, and found this!:
https://scottishforestgarden.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/eating-rhubarb-flowers/
gardening conversations aside, I enjoyed your kyoka very much. I especially liked the unexpected hiccuping! ~Great verb choice.
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So interesting that the flowers can be eaten! Guess what’s on the menu tonight for dinner 🙂
I’m glad you enjoyed the poem, thank you, Sarah.
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Yes, I never knew that. It’s amazing what you find out in that internet rabbit hole.
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This is so delightful and paints a very lovely image!❤️
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Thanks, Punam 🙂
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You are welcome. 🙂
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I’m so enjoying your garden!
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🙂
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🙂 Love “hiccup”
My rhubarb flowered too! It’s hardly even out of the ground the silly thing.
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How cool! I just learned you can eat the flowers but not any of the stalk part they are attached to. It just keeps getting better. Sarah put a link in comments about it.
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Oh really!? Ok, checking THAT out. I’m so intrigued!
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I couldn’t make the cognitive leap to eat mine, and the next ones will be snipped, but it’s really turned into such a pretty flower
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hiccups followed by singing … how delightful.
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🙂 Glad you enjoyed it.
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I have never seen a rhubarb plant or blossom. Thank you for this wonderful write!
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It was quite a surprise, glad you enjoyed it, thanks, Linda.
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That “hiccup” is a pleasant surprise. 🙂
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🙂
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Mine were flowering too when I cut them today…made rhubarb sauce and will freeze chopped pieces for a coffee cake I make. Delightful strangers cause hiccups 🙂
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Lynn, do the plants keep growing all season, or should they be harvested now? Glad you like the hiccups 🙂
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Harvest stalks now…and again when they grow out. I harvest mine 3 times in a summer season but have never eaten the flowers!
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OK thanks for the info!
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The first time our rhubarb flowered it took me by surprise too. I think you’re supposed to lop it off.
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kaykuala
Hiccup, then
Sing welcome
Interruptions to life’s normal ways but still surviving the Corvid 19
Hank
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Nice way of looking it, Hank 🙂
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delightful images of your garden and a treat to read!
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🙂 thanks, Kate
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welcome Lisa, take care 🙂
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May! Rhubarb season. Next week, strawberry rhubarb pie! Nice verse!
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Thanks Mary. Can’t wait to make it.
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