19 February 2012 - Creeping Jenny - rondelet

I set up two on shore ‘digging and basking’ places for the turtles in my pond today, taking some errant strands of a creeping, spreading plant called Creeping Jenny from the garden and transplanting them.  I’ve seen pictures and hope I get the same results; ground hugging dense, light green leaflets that will cling to stone and dangle in the pond water.  Should be a very natural look and Creeping Jenny is very hardy.

Now, the below starts off describing what appears to be a girl, Jenny, and attributing a creeping nature to her.  She is also seen as spreading the dirt, planting, sowing, planting in places where dirt/soil/nutrients are poor.  As she stretches herself, she becomes many.  Stone can be seen here as those that have no heart but when Jenny arrives, she can reap a bountiful harvest.  The shore can be a person’s well being and this she clothes in fine, green finery.

But perhaps you think this poem is just about a low growing ground cover which once established, is both dense and lush.  Yeah, right.

19 February 2012 - Creeping Jenny - rondelet

Creeping, Jenny

spreads her fingers where dirt is thin.

Creeping, Jenny

will stretch out, becoming many

lace strands over stone.  Once she’s in,

she’ll dress the shore in fine green skin;

Creeping Jenny.

3-21-12

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