Subject: Re: [Homestead] Spring tasks and taking time to "smell the roses"
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:16:39 -0700
On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Lisa Kae Van Meter Perry wrote:
This sounds like fun! Flower-scrounging! Maybe it should become my
newest
hobby.
As I roll Mother around the various plantings surrounding the nursing
home she often says, "take a cutting from that and put it in the
ground," or something to that effect. It is a longstanding mindset
that survives her dementia. She has lived frugally all her life and
one way a plant enthusiast copes with limited funds is by sharing
cuttings and rootings as well as seeds with friends and strangers alike.