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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Spring tasks and taking time to "smell the roses"
  • Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:10:28 -0400

Gene; you didn't mention peonies, my favorite. There was one old plant when I moved here. It was in the shade, so I dug it up to move it, and ended up with dozens of root pieces, each of which is now a big plant. Gotta love peonies!

Tomorrow is my mother's 93rd birthday. She's still going strong and lives alone, although I did arrange to have more people look in on her (meals on wheels, a home health aid, a physical therepist, and me...she's complaining that there is always someone there). I'm trying to decide what kind of plant to get her for her birthday. She prefers living plants so she (or rather I, her gardener) can plant it in the garden after it blooms. She likes Stargazer lilies, but they are hard to find in this little town. Maybe daffodils or something else bright and cheerful (yes, daffodil season is just starting here...we had an inch of snow last week).

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Spring tasks and taking time to "smell the roses"



On Apr 12, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Robert Walton wrote:

I hope everyone is making sure to spend some time on flowers. One of
the nice pleasures of homesteading. I'm planting flowering tobacco and
some new marigolds this year, plus the normal stuff. I've collected
some of the really small seeded sunflowers, they usually have lots of
branches with blooms. The birds love those seeds and usually they
manage to self seed. I've got a 100 foot or so bed along a fence that
I'm putting in at least one row of sunflowers. It makes a really nice
display when the birds start feeding on the seed.

Flowers are the dessert of the gardening meal.

Mother had a stroke about a month ago and now speaks mostly from
vascular dementia. I take her for two or three rolls every day. The
place where she is has extensive flower plantings, flowering shrubs,
flowering trees. She is a lifelong gardener and the flowers give her
great pleasure even in her present condition.

Plant flowers. Sunflowers, hollyhocks, iris, tulips, daffodils,
hibiscus, lilacs, rose of sharon, forsythia, climbing roses, passion
vine, anything that blooms pretty. Scarlet Runner Beans work, too. One
of Chris's gardening goals is to have something in bloom every month
of the year. Fortunately, witch hazel blooms in January at Heartwood.

Gene GeRue
www.RURALIZE.com




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