Green cornstarch circle
holds kousa promise fulfilled –
my prayers answered.
Prayers don’t always have to be for big things. Two autumns ago I gathered fruits from the kousa dogwood tree I discovered at my dentist’s office and saved the pits. I planted them this spring in pots and put the pots outside. These two and one other sprouted. I’m not 100% sure these are kousa dogwood seedlings, but time will tell.
Linda is today’s host for dVerse’ Open Link Night.
Tao Talk 
You have such a green thumb! It is so beautiful to see new life spring forth, in whatever form! 🌱
LikeLiked by 1 person
Tricia 100% agree with you — as long as it isn’t poison ivy! 😉
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, true! 😆
LikeLiked by 1 person
How cool, Lisa!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Nice! It’s fun to experiment with seeds and pits. Hope these turn into something wonderful. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I do too!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Cool 🙂 so glad they sprouted!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I just hope they are kousa dogwood sprouts. Will wait and see ::fingers crossed::.
LikeLike
fingers crossed – cornus in the corn starch circle!
LikeLiked by 1 person
yes!
LikeLike
Beautiful all round and on every well – a treat to visit you this evening – thankyou for your so evident creative freshness and light…
LikeLiked by 1 person
Scott, thank you!
LikeLike
Having learned how to grow plants during the pandemic, I am excited to see what it will be. Time will tell with good nurturing and care.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Me too. Thanks, Grace.
LikeLike
I love this, Lisa. So great to gather seeds to take home. I did this with dead marigold seeds on the half-dead rack at Lowes one year!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ve snagged seeds here and there and everywhere. I’m sure the plants are appreciative to be able to continue. One of my friends is sending me Dawn Redwood seeds! I will be blogging about them soon.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That sounds interesting! I hope they grow for you.
LikeLiked by 1 person
So true that prayers can be small and manifest in wondrous ways. You will have to give us an update at you nurture this sprout.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Truedessa, I sure will 🙂
LikeLike
They look good. Green and thriving.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Will see what happens!
LikeLiked by 1 person
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
LikeLiked by 1 person
Congrats, Lisa, something is definitely growing there! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Keeping my fingers crossed, Christian 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
This is a lovely haibun that captures the sense of hope and anticipation that comes with planting seeds and waiting for them to grow. I hope they grow well.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks, Jay, and I hope so also 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
The seedlings look great!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Veera! Nice to “see” you. How are your studies going?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Too hectic to even appear here 😂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Veera, glad you were able to take a moment of respite from the “hectic-ness.”
LikeLiked by 1 person
Atleast they spared my weekends 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
maybe next year your haiku and pic will be about the next growth!! good luck Lisa!❤️
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Cindy! Always something new growing around here.
LikeLike
There is something spiritual about fostering and raising a seed into a plant!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes, there is, Margaret. Glad you see/feel it.
LikeLike
At first glance I thought “this looks delicious”–and it is! Just not the way I originally envisioned it…(K)
LikeLiked by 1 person
The day I opened the slider to the “mini-greenhouse” where I’m keeping seedlings and some of those water garden plants I won last year that didn’t get planted, I emptied out the containers that have been catching water in the worsening leak out there. My timing was good, as there was a still-living earthworm swimming in one of the pails. I plucked her out and put her in one of the bigger planters. How an earthworm was able to get to the roof is a mystery that is yet unsolved. I love your comment and I’m sure her-thworm thinks so also 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
I love those kinds of mysteries. And a good ending! (K)
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I remember you talking about that at that time. Glad they sprouted…I’m going to take some from a snow ball bush the next time I’m able to…with permission of course…that statement made me sound like I was going to use a five fingered discount lol.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The best thing about plants and seeds is that there are usually millions more than are needed. With a snowball bush you might be better off getting an offshoot from under it — with permission of course 😉 I don’t know many people who would be so mean as to say no if you ask them.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I bought Jennifer a Chinese Snowbush…at least that is what they called it and it’s not the same thing. She likes it but it’s completely different.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I just googled both and see what you mean. My grandma had one in her front yard that was beautiful. She had so many beautiful trees, shrubs, perennials, etc. in her yard, most of it umbrella-ed by huge oak trees. This patched together shack at the bottom of a hill with a magnificent front lawn and edged by such variety. It doesn’t exist anymore, but I’ll never forget it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
My mom had them also….I think I told you…I went out with a baseball bat and had batting practice… my mom frowned on that quite a bit! I never did it again.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Oh wow, I don’t remember you telling me that (but you probably did and I blanked the horror out of my mind lol.) I bet she was not pleased! My kids never messed with the plants, trees, shrubs, but that little …. across the alley more than made up for it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
No not pleased is a great way of putting it…bless her heart. A single mom in the 70s and seeing her beautiful snow ball bush in tatters.
LikeLiked by 1 person