It’s that time of year (maybe it’s been that time of year for a while where you are …) when gardens are finally showing some colour: pink hyacinths, red maples, white hydrangeas, purple pansies, and green leaves shooting up where there was nothing a couple of days before (I’ve had plenty of yellow daffodils the past few weeks, but little else other than green grass and foliage).

Write something about a plant – tree, flower, shrub, weed, or some other type of flora – and how it somehow interacts with someone or something else.

If you like, do a bit of research to get you started, or to take you deeper.

Alternatively, introduce a plant into something you’re already writing in order to give it more life.