For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.
I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.
Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).
Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.
A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.
Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.