Sharing plants....

Gardeners are some of the most generous people.  If they have a plant, most generally everyone else has a start of it too.  I am up to 7 tomato plants now because of friends.  My neighbor started enough for a small nation and is giving them away to anyone that will take one or a hundred!  I took 3 and it was hard to walk away with just that.  My friend gave me 3 more tomato plants and I bought 1...so now I am up to 7.  I'm running out of pots.


Mary's Iris's

My sister Mary gave me a start of Iris years ago.  The old fashioned/smell really good kind.  It was one of the first plants that I planted up here on the hill and every year that they bloom, makes me smile and think of her.  Wish she lived closer.

Janie's Columbine

These cuties are new to the garden.  I had mentioned to my sister Janie how much I loved columbine and she sent me down some starts.  3 different varieties!!!   Hopefully they will spread like they do in Janie's garden.  They are blooming so good this year and also make me smile and think of Janie.  Wished she lived closer, too.

Nora's Feverfew

One of the sweetest and funniest friends I have, Nora gave me lots of starts of some of her plants and this year the feverfew is growing leaps and bounds and is flowering.  It is so dainty.

Grandad's rose

Took some cuttings from a rose growing at my grandads old house and 1 rooted.  It's not a fancy rose but it makes me think of him and how I wish I would have known my grandmother.  She was probably the one who planted it.  So a part of her now lives on in my garden.

There are so many plants around my garden that friends and family have given to me, I can't list them all.  But I think of them all while working or just walking around in my garden.  I believe that is alot of the charm of old homesteads.  We can just wonder of the stories of the daffodils that still come up even though the house is gone.  The peonies that form a hedge down a sidewalk, that leads to a garage, that my husbands' grandmother had.  I have a picture of her standing beside them.  It inspired me to make a hedge out of peonies.  The lady that lived in the old house before us that wanted to grow rice...just to see if she could.

These plants tell the stories of these wonderful people and their generous hearts.  We can expect no less of gardeners, huh?