September 2017 Day 16 Plants Have Stories Too

 It was a productive day.  

All the morning glories in this part of the garden are gone!!!.  

There's tilling to yet do but  the hardest part is all over.  

Myguy had the day off and helped  finish clearing all those vines.

It went so much faster together!! 

I'm sooo thankful.  

Then, we  started moving  hydrangeas that had to get done before some major

work starts on the back wall of the  house. 

First he cut the branches  off with a chainsaw and 

 we must have had at least two truckloads.  

 Then we wrapped a  chain around  the bushes and pulled them out

with the bucket on the tractor.

 After getting them out, we carried them up to my Mommas

olde place and used the backhoe to dig all the holes to replant.  

The rootballs were pretty huge.  

It's funny how plants are for gardeners.  

--You remember where you got them.

Who gave them to you... and 

how old they are.  Well; for the most part.  

One of these hydrangeas came from our neighbor.  

When they go on vacations she often asks me to come feed her animals and 

check on things.  About ten years ago, they were going out of town and she had me over

to tell me what all to do.  She lives  on her Papaws homeplace and

Papaw's hydrangea bush  was in full bloom.  She told me to help myself

to bouquets from it.  So... I did!  I cut the flowers as well as stems with

just leaves and put them in an antique fruit jar.  The day I decided to throw 

them out, I discovered the stems without the blooms had started to root! 

Beautiful little white hairy roots!  I didn't even know hydrangeas will "start" like that.  

So I pitched the dying flower blooms and kept the stems going in water and later planted them. 

That sweet gift from my neighbor  grew into my row of hydrangeas.  

I have one different type that was in the same row.  

I bought it online in memory of my angel mother.

It's white and is called the snow queen.  

My Momma once won a snow queen pageant  in her younger days--

so you know how it is in grief.  It was one of those things I just had to have

because I was missing her so much.  

When we dug that hydrangea up today it kind of broke in two so one piece got planted

up at her place and the other half we moved to another area of our yard.  

I sooo hope they make it.  

I watered them really good and mulched heavy with old hay.  

Now we wait and see what happens!

Well; it's late... so I leave you with a cool quote on today's 

Lantana.  

"Normality is a paved road:

it's comfortable to walk, but no

flowers grow."  

Vincent Van Gogh 

Sweet dreams!

Leaon Mary