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I got tired of just whiling away
The dusk to dawn hours each day.
I know it sounds corny,
But he only gets horny
In a photosynthetical way.
--- Jim Weaver Collection

If your little thing stands up for me,
I will surely show respect for thee.
I'd cut off your treasure,
If it shows a good measure,
And use it as my phylactery.
--- Anon

While gathering onions, Nicholas
Heard one whisper, "He's going to pickle us."
He replied, "Don't be silly,
I preferr piccalilli,
Not onions, that would be ridiculous."
--- Funfax Limericks

There's a neighborhood out in the 'burbs,
That is heavily into their herbs;
They've planted them down
All over the town;
On the street sides, along all the curbs.
--- Cap'n Bean P9809

"My advice," said a cockster named Dietz,
"If you crave total bliss `tween the sheets,
Before sex (this is crucial),
Smear your dick with urushial;
Kiss goodbye to all flat-tasting sweets."

(Urushial in poison ivy)
--- Armand Singer

I'm Hakim, from Oman (States Trucial),
I worship great sex; it's what's crucial;
To achieve the full measure
Of erotical pleasure,
I dunk my hot prick in urushiol. (poison ivy oil)
--- Armand Singer

An old horticulturalist, Tatum,
Kept parrots and said, "How I hate 'em.
My Mesembryanthemum,
Spurge and Chrysanthemum ,
Died because Polygonatum."
--- Peter Wilkins P9807a

A gardening friend gave me hope
When he gave me a heliotrope
In a pot as a gift,
But as soon as I sniffed
It, I knew it was probably dope.
--- Peter J Wilkins P9809

Salix discolor's an odd sort of phyllo;
I mused, laying back on my pillow.
In a dioecious genus,
Some are male (without penis)
Yet somehow it's called "pussy willow!"
--- Knotweed

Horticulturalist Pierre Lebeau
Is a friendly young Frenchman I know.
He'll yell out "Bon Jour,"
As he shovels manure,
While reciting "You'll reap what you sow!"
--- Bob Birch P9808

"Your rhubarb, I've noticed it grows
By the outhouse, where everyone goes!"
Grandad said, "Lad,
It isn't so bad.
They're family. Just people we knows!"
--- Tutta Gioia

I just played the Grim Reaper today;
Mowed my lawn all by hand, all the way --
I was using a scythe!
You don't fear for your life?
Someone care for a roll in the hay?
--- Anon

A botanist, growing a plant,
Was approached by a very old ant,
Who said to the botanist,
"Your plants are the rottenest,
Since those of Ulysses S. Grant."
--- Lims Unlimited

There was a young girl from Naupactus
Who had an affair with a cactus.
Though she tried many tricks
And endured many pricks,
Still the cactus is virgo intactus.
--- Michelle Lorvic P2006

My balls? My dear, I haven't got any!
My sex life's an "Intro to Botany;"
These ulcers? Good gracious!
Scrophulariaceous
Reminders I dab with raw rhatany.

(rhatany - dried root of two species of scroph)
--- Robin K Willoughby P8512

"Can't you fools see where this is all leading,
This nightmare of selective breeding?"
He spat on the ground
And then turned around,
And continued on with his weeding.
--- VOL 7 a

Young Geraldine Smith's one of them that is
So keen on her garden, (a gem that is,)
Lads get a surprise,
When, skirt round her thighs,
She willingly shows off her clematis.
--- Anon

Echinacea is horrible stuff!
Never had it but I've had enough.
I can smell it from here;
It makes shit appear
To be farts through a pink powder puff.
--- Karen

A bashful young mushroom named Gus
Went courting his girl with a fuss;
He shyly pursued her
And anxiously wooed her --
Ecstatic, she yelled, "SOME FUNGUS!"
--- R J Winkler P8405

Old Marg was the spice of Herb's life --
Henbane of existence, his wife.
Had no money! (Oh rue!)
Their lovage was true --
They wondered how they could loose strife.
--- Anon

One day while they looked in the myrrh,
Old Herb, (parsley deaf) did bestir.
Coriander group
Of nudists on the stoop,
Asked "May we rent land from you, sir?"
--- Anon

(Basil, (the scallion!), sheds cloves
Endives underneath the oak groves.)
"You see that nut, Meg?
Anise naked peg?!
Soon they'll be cumin in droves."
--- Anon

The Spurge went out cruisin' for Chickweed,
His only thought scatterin' plantseed.
The herbicide got 'im,
'Fore Dad Ragweed caught 'im;
New little weeds trying to quick breed.
--- Anon

I'm informed Gregor Mendel has said,
"This is gospel, so please have it spread.
My research with sweet peas
Made me violently sneeze,
So I just stuck with cactus instead."
--- Loren C Fitzhugh P9809

When he'd wander around without clothes,
She called him a thorn on the rose.
When he asked her why,
She gave this reply:
"I've often been pricked-on by those."
--- Fred Cohen P8312

We have here a woman of needs
Requesting the planting of seeds.
I think I will toil
At tilling her soil,
If only to see where it leads.
--- Anon

Horticulture uplifts Arthur Deex
As he strolls by the glades and the creeks
Where young lovers abound
And the rushes resound
With the high inspiration he seeks.

(Arthur Deex editor of Pentatette)
--- John E Mayhood P9809a

A short-sighted gardener named Brown
Planted some trees upside-down.
The fruit turned out soggy
And tasted all boggy,
But the roots were the finest in town.
--- Mary Danby Armada 1

Phil Stein was a botanist who
Took dates to his greenhouse to screw.
When his wife heard, of course,
She sued for divorce
Citing Phil as a wandering Jew.
--- Anon

Some friends had asked me to meet 'em
At our great local arboretum.
But on the date they appointed,
They were sure disappointed,
Because I never got there to greet 'em.
--- Popsicle TP9807

I talked to an onion this week
But she cried when she started to speak;
For she said she'd been left
All alone and bereft
When her boyfriend went out for a leek.
--- Peter Wilkins

I submit there's an obvious link
You might miss if your eye would just blink.
Cash could be the mulch or
Jewels could lead to culture
Any whore, but then who'd make her think?
--- Loren C Fitzhugh P9809

Horticulturally speaking I'm not
Very good, though I give it a shot.
But I feel such a failure;
My roses and dahlia
Are dying from leaf mould and rot.
--- Peter J Wilkins P9809

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There once was a man from Cleves,
Who swallowed a packet of seeds.
In half of an hour,
His dick was a flower,
And his ass was a bundle of weeds.
--- Anon

A man had considerable woes;
His magnolias grew from his toes.
But the strangest of all
Was what grew from his ball
Was a beautiful prize-winning rose.
--- Laurence E Bernstein

A husband who lived in Ansonia
Made fun of his spouse's begonia;
The plant, miffed at that,
Gave its mistress a pat,
And gave him a squirt of ammonia.
--- Alsops Foibles

Purple cornflower, herbal of old,
Echinacea's tea for the bold.
Also known as black sampson,
This flower slaps clamp on
Fatigue that invites common cold.
--- Carol June Hooker

On seeing or smelling a rose
The usual comments are "Oh's."
But when one is picked
And if one is pricked,
A viler type comment arose.
--- Irving Superior P9809

Sweet plant flower secretion, NECTAR,
Attacts birds and bees with detector,
To find nascent honey,
On days bright and sunny.
They don't know they're the gene pool protector.
--- Daniel Ford

Among my better garden spots,
I planted some "forget-me-nots."
I drew a map with care
And placed the map somewhere,
Among my more disturbing thoughts.
--- Irving Superior P9809

The forsythias, yellow and bright,
Have been blooming with all of their might;
As the frost fades away
With the winter, so gray;
Such a warm and enlivening sight!
--- Cap'n Bean P0606

The garden's a blooming bouquet,
In the month we refer to as May;
Where the colors abound
And the flowers astound,
With their glorious fragrant display.
--- Cap'n Bean P0406

There was a professor of Botany
Who his students called Dr. Monotony.
He'd drone on for hours
On the sex lives of flowers.
Of his own, they alleged, he'd not got any.
--- Laurence Perrine P9409

Whenever I am passing by,
To my Hibiscus I say, "Hi."
And when I reach the gate,
As though we had a date,
To my Biennials I "Bye."
--- Irving Superior P9809

I once had a White Hollyhock
Whom I screwed every hour by the clock.
Then my mother came in
And caught us in sin,
And promptly dropped dead from the shock.
--- John Miller

I once had a Black Hollyhock
Whose cunt was closed up with a lock.
In a move I thought droll,
I screwed the key-hole,
But that kind of messed up my cock.
--- John Miller

Then there's that sweet Daffodil
Who erred in not taking The Pill.
So she paid the price
Of engaging in vice.
And I, sir, am paying it still.
--- John Miller

In truth, I admit I was plastered
The night that I fathered that bastard.
What I've had to pay
For that roll in the hay,
Makes my paycheck pass through like a fast turd.
--- John Miller

Jack-in-the-Pulpit are "Cobra Plants",
"Indian Turnips" another nuance.
Its oxalic acid
Can make your thing flaccid,
But cooking will avoid all mischance.
--- David Miller

The Aroid, Arisaema triphyllum,
Is of the Araceae subphylum.
It's not a good snack.
Eat Pulpit-with-Jack
And you'll likely end up in asylum.
--- David Miller

I call my girl Jack-in-the-Pulpit
'Cause her clit grows so big when I gulp it;
Yet her quim is quite tight,
When she does it just right;
She can suck in my peter and pulp it.
--- John Miller

A green-fingered lass called Veronica
Grew a prize-winning, bright red japonica.
So how did she nourish
The plant -- make it flourish?
She played to it on her harmonica.
--- Mary Danby - 2nd Armada

My old horticultural mate
Says the Hollyhock isn't so great.
So I'll plant in your bower
A Kniphofia flower,
Upon which you care to gyrate.
--- Sweet P

A nun in a convent in Bray,
Saw her roses go into decay.
Reverend Mother said, "Dear,
Please no longer fear.
Here's liquid manure, let us spray."
--- 500 Irish Jokes & Lims

Today I woke up with a yawn
And went down to the garden at dawn,
Where I gasped in surprise
At the height and the size
Of the thistles invading the lawn.
--- Peter J Wilkins P9809

The woman who grew meconopsis
Was asked to give a synopsis.
"How can I," she cried,
"When all of them died,
Do more that describe their autopsies?"

(meconopsis is hard-to-grow Himalayan blue poppy)
--- Mason Phelps P9711

Old Charlie spends all of his hours
In sunshine and thundery showers,
Perfecting the lingo
Of plant life and bingo!
His mesembryanthemum flowers.
--- Peter Wilkins

When Algernon Smith from Australia
Tried to breed a glorious new dahlia,
He first got it talking,
And then it went walking
But making it hop was a failure.
--- Funfax Limericks

A botanist grew a rosebud,
That once fell in love with a dud.
But he interfered
As nuptuals neared,
And he nipped the thing right in the bud.
--- Al Willis P9809

A bold and quite lecherous anther
Found a stigma and tried to enchanther.
She found it appallin'
That he had no pollen,
So he gave up his plans to romanther.
--- Al Willis P9809

A rose by any other name...
So Irving (other name) became.
But folks began to sniff
And when they got a whiff,
Agreed they do not smell the same.
--- Irving Superior P9809

I tend to my orchids each day;
At night unto Jesus I pray:
"Please spare my Lycaste
From slugs that are nasty;
They munch all the new growth away.
--- Joe

A man, though well-liked by the gals,
Preferred to consort with his Phals.
With Girls, sex was enigma,
Give him anthers and stigma,
'Cause orchids were his very best pals.
--- Buz

There once was a girl named Amanda
Whose family heard her demand a
Plant that would flower
In a beautiful shower,
So they happily bought her a Vanda.
--- Betts

There was a Vandaceous collector,
Who fell for a postal inspector.
He cured all her blahs
With the best Yip Sum Wahs,
For for imports he had to reject her!
--- Tim

Ascondas will grow in the trees
And Laelias bloom in the breeze.
But they died in my pot,
And for why, I know not.
Perhaps they don't like a good freeze!
--- Joe


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