My grandmother's sweet peas....

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One of the things I remember most about my grandmother's porch, was the wonderful lattice filled with sweet peas. As soon as I had a garden of my own, it was one of the first things I planted- and when I see it, I always think of her.

My grandmother has been gone for many, many years. Last weekend I took a drive past her old house. Looks about the same- but what I noticed made me smile from ear to ear...Those sweet peas had spread into the ditch area in front of her house- there are several empty lots next to her- those sweet peas were growing and blooming for at least a mile along that stretch of road! Way to go Grandma- your garden is still growing!
 

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A wonderful history, Lesa!

My grandmother was the person who introduced me to gardening, when I was 3 & 4 years old and living with her.

She had a "Victory Garden" in Hope, BC on the river. She moved right after the war and I visited there about 20 years later. No one had lived there after my grandfather died and, it is possible, that the river had flooded her garden a few times since it was right on the banks.

Grandma's hollyhocks were still there and you could see the outlines of her flower garden (in the shape of a "V" :cool:). I was a young guy then and remember thinking how remarkable it was to be able to see her garden. Now, 20 years doesn't seem like such a very long time but I'm not quite sure where her home was or if I could find my way back.

When you shine a light up into the heavens, the light just keeps going - on to infinity, I suppose. Some people's lives are like that light. Maybe all of our lives are like that light.

Steve
 

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Thats a great story Lesa I'm so glad to hear they are doing so well.
 

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That's a sweet memory Lesa, a grandmothers influence can be stronger than I suppose they ever considered.
My own grandma and great grandma were gardeners with a love for growing things that was communicated without words.
An early memory was great grandma taking my sister and I into her huge flower garden and walking us down the rows and naming the flowers for us. I was always amazed that she could remember all that, the flowers seemed so samey to my uneducated eyes.
And, yes they both loved sweet peas also :) .

Thanks for sharing that, it brought back so much of what I loved about those two wonderful women....
 
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Awesome Grandma stories! My grandma will be 91 in August and she taught me to garden and sew-she never fussed at all the cousins hitting her up for seeds every year! I think she was too busy laughing because we hitched cousin Donnie up to the old plow-can you imagine 6-8 kids under 10 in a garden 10'x10'? We had a lot of fun back then:)
 

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