This is a series about the neighborhood flowers and flowering trees that I saw and enjoyed on my walk in the neighborhood during the stay at home months. Many of the flowers I don’t know much about and depend on Google lens to get a name. If there are mistakes, apologize for my ignorance.
I just don’t understand who names plants. No rhyme and reason at all. Not sure why this is called Chinese privet unless the person in charge of naming this first saw this in China. In fact this is so ubiquitous in our area that I would have completely missed it except for the loud humming of myriads of bees as I was walking by the side of a house. People use it in many homes as boundary dividers or as ornamental hedge. I walk by these every day and never give them a second glance. But the humming of the bees made me look to my side and I found the hedges erupting with this beautiful and very mildly fragrant flowers. Later on I read that the small berry like fruits that the plant produce are poisonous. No wonder people use this as boundary hedges.
thy sublime beauty
hides a mystery
fruits you produce, if eaten
will cause misery
Fleeting Muse 