steliospapelis

Dart

bastard

yesterday, I saw that the garden had obeyed the jungle law, even as the
woods had done. The rhododendrons stood fifty feet high, twisted and
entwined with bracken, and they had entered into alien marriage with a
host of nameless shrubs, poor, bastard things that clung about their roots
as though conscious of their spurious origin. A lilac had mated with a
copper beech, and to bind them yet more closely to one another the
malevolent ivy, always an enemy to grace, had thrown her tendrils about