Plants for Years

 

HOSTA

A hardy plant. Don't need a lot

love caring for.

Plant and throw a little water on now

and again and it grows....

and spreads.

 

Hence the reason I now have some in the front also.

Not to mention what I have given away!

I got this plant from a woman that used to watch

my children. Granny Pat started keeping my son

when he was 17 months old.....he will soon

be 28. I have had this plant about 25 or 26 yrs now.

I dug it up and brought it with me when I moved to the

house I live in now.

 

 

YUCKA PLANT

 

Got this from a sweet woman I worked with

in the Pre Press section of the Printing

Division for the State of TN.

Going to my a guess on this one...

I have had it about 20 yrs now.

 

 

MY HYDRAINAGE BUSHES.

Got two of these from my supervisior

when I worked in Printing in

Procurement.

She dug them up and brought them in, by the

time I got them home the leaves looked like

lettuce that someone poured bacon grease on.

Was not sure they would make it....but they did.

Started with two, one each side of the Crepe Myrtle,

I now have five of them and I have even dug

some up and given them away.

Thanks Tennia, I have enjoyed

these plants for yrs.

Now....let me see, how many years?

About 17 years.

 

All the above blooms are from the same two bushes.

 

This last bloom is from a bush I purchased later at

Kids on the Block fund raiser.

(puppets that teach kids about life)

I purchased that about 6 years ago.

 

LEMON BALM

 

Wow, this stuff GROWS and SPREADS.

Rub a leave between your fingers and it smells

like Lemon Pledge.

You can cook with it yet I never have.

I got this from Debbie Brewer...

wow, probably right around

20 years ago.

 

HOUSE LEEKS

Also from Debbie Brewer

Got this about 25 or 26 years ago.

I also had this planted at my other place

and brought it with me when I moved.

In the late summer to early fall this

will bloom a pinky purple color about

2 weeks before our first cold snap.

 

A couple of years ago I bought a rusty red

version of this. Hoping it will bloom this yr.

 

MONKEY GRASS

Debbie Brewer....again! LOL..

she always had one of everything!

This lines one side of my drive.

Got probably 20 to 22 yrs ago.

 

FORSYTHIA BUSH

Cool story behind this bush.

I only planted it 2 summers ago.

Had another one but the guy mowing cut

it down....oops!

Anyway, I got the sprout from some coming

up at my mom's house. She has several.

Her original sprout came from a bush

my grandfather had in his yard in Gerorgia.

Not sure when mom started the first bush but

my grandfather has been gone a long time.

I want to say I was in the 10th grade when we lost him....

and I am now.....oh never mind that!

OOPS.....so wrong, just checked with my mom and

we lost granddaddy in 1973.

Anyway....I love having this growing next

to my front porch and knowing just where this started.

 

Next and last...

My CREPE MYTRLE BUSH

This first pic was taken from my 2nd

story window.....give you an idea of the height

of it. I got this bush and another one from

a lady I worked with in Printing. I gave one

to my neighbor. Mine is pink and her's is

purple. Michelle gave me this bush, just a

small sprout the year before the terrible

tornados hit downtown Nashville in

1998. I would have given it back to her

since she lost a lot of her bushes that day but

it had already grown so much and it would have

been hard to move.

So I have had this baby since 97, 18 years...

and it has grown!!

 

 

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