Comments on: For the time being

By: kris

kris — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:58:36 +0000

For me, they smell of my Nanna’s garden.

By: Adrian Cooke

Adrian Cooke — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:00:34 +0000

Thanks. They feel old and familiar. I love how they smell, not the flowers so much as the plant itself.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:46:12 +0000

I think taking care of the geraniums seems a very poetic act. It’s a small act, and its implications are rather larger.

By: Allynn

Allynn — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:30:58 +0000

Hmmm…. I think I’ve got a couple of gardening books I need to lend you! There are annuals which only last one season but may freely re-seed themselves forever. Then there are perennials which come back year after year (despite the brutal winters). Quirky bi-annuals grow the first year and manage to survive (some even staying green) throughout the first winter only to flower and die the second season. Many bulbs actually *need* to be planted in the Fall because they need a period in the cold ground in order to flower.

If you are walking in the woods and find a clump of daffodils, look around because you will almost certainly see a very old house foundation. Flowers, like trees, can out-live the people who planted them. Now pots (and ponds ;-) are a different story!

Allynn

By: Adrian Cooke

Adrian Cooke — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:02:53 +0000

Flowers, like trees, can out-live the people who planted them.

I like that. All the knowledge and planning though… I’m not so sure. Baby steps here, Allynn, baby steps!