How To Cultivate A Moon Garden:

Dig out the shape of a perfect crescent, to the right

Splash rich soil in seeds of sweet evening primrose.

Mix in among silver-foliaged day bloomers: botanical

Dusty miller, lamb’s ear, silver thyme, mugwort artemesia;

Night bloomers of white luminescence that reflect moonlight:

Angel’s trumpet, evening stock, night gladiolas all magical.

On a blustery day, reminisce and bask in among night phlox,

Honey and vanilla pretties that open right at dusk,

The climber moonflower, sweet piece de resistance

Fragrant backdrop under bedroom on a window trellis!

Mine sits edged in bee balm, red hot poker, and lupine

Sweet nectar for hummingbirds and speckled wood.

Beloved witch-hazel heartily casts her spell.

So above, so below! All the ritual herbs: willow,

Water lily, sleepwort, camphor, eucalyptus,

Gardenia, jasmine, moonwort, and sandalwood.

Dark jeweled moonless nights yet still a heavy oily fragrance lifts.