Southern Matriarch: Good Advice

This view, below, is totally designed.  Preservation of meadow, wild wood, hedgerows.  If poetry has 'tone poems', indeed, 'garden poems' are drawn from a deeper well.  They can be heard, read, and seen.

How does this 'garden poem' reach deeper, grow in meaning?

"When the time is near, prepare the grave.  Do not wait until your pet has died.", her friend advised.  Rich wisdom gained from her mother, the rarest of breeds, a true Southern matriarch.
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He is now blessedly abiding under the oak tree.
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His passing changing this view for all who knew him.
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Garden & Be Well,     XO Tara
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Pics shot last week.