A Flower from Childhood

[digitS']

Grandparents can be strong disciplinarians.

I remember being at the table with my grandmother and reaching in front of her for something. She hit my hand with the jam spoon ..!

It may have been strawberry jam on the spoon. Hurt and I thought that I was bleeeeding! She apologized for making me cry.

stevie

 

[seedcorn]

Grandma was portulaca. We called it moss.

Mom when I was a child wasn’t into flowers much. Later, 4 O’Clocks.

 

[Nyboy]

I have some plants hosta, lily of valley, rose of sharen and lilac that came from plants my grandmother planted. The lilac only flowers every other year and by mid summer covered in mildew but my favorite

 

[aftermidnight]

@Nyboy the next time your lilac is going to bloom nip out half of the flower buds as they develop. This is a common practice for shrubs that only flower every second year.

I forgot to mention snapdragons and pinks to my above post

Annette

 

[seedcorn]

@thistlebloom I bet every kid did what you did with snapdragons. I did as well. Still like them. They were coming up wild but only the ugly pink ones. Red, white, nope.....

 

[Carol Dee]

Grandma E never had a garden when I was a child, but tells stories of the one she had when her children where small. No flowers. Grandma G like petunias best and the spicy scent of marigolds.

 

[flowerbug]

Grandma was portulaca. We called it moss.

Mom when I was a child wasn’t into flowers much. Later, 4 O’Clocks.

4 O'Clocks rang a bell for me and sure enough those are the grenade shaped seeds i was thinking of from my younger days. those were Grandma's flowers and we brought some of those seeds with us to the new place and grew them for a few years.