My Great-great-grandmother's flowers

[journey11]

My DDs and I were out at the farm yesterday and everything is in bloom! I love this time of year. I wanted to show you guys the bouquet of flowers we picked, all things that were planted nearly 50 years ago by my great-great-grandmother (on what is now my Dad's farm). I used to have starts off of most of these at my old house, but now that we finally got the landscaping underway around the front of our house, I will have to go back out with my spade and find some goodies to fill my big new flowerbed (pics on that soon to come too). They all badly need dividing anyway.

I am in love with that rust-colored iris! After my daughter carrying them around for an hour, they weren't in the best of shape for this bouquet though. I think irises smell like ice cream. They are the yummiest smelling flower ever.

And check out this tulip poplar flower my DD picked too. I'd never picked one with such a long stem before. They are really unusual and elegant in a flower arrangement, aren't they?

 

[Carol Dee]

Beautiful Journey. No yard or garden is complete with out flowers. I love that yours are heirlooms from a well loved Great-great-Grandmother. I see them in you DD's future, too. thanks for sharing. :bouquet

 

[Nyboy]

Isn't amazing how long some flower live. I have some my grandmother planted over 50 years ago.

 

[bj taylor]

I love pass on flowers. I don't have such a lineage but I've got my mother's poppies & larkspur that she's had for a long time. I hope someday, my daughter will want some seeds too.
those are beautiful flowers. I can almost smell them. I love iris scent too. my iris have been particularly beautiful this year.

 

[lesa]

Beautiful!

 

[ninnymary]

They are beautiful and even more special because of their history. Wished I had some from my grandmother.

Mary

 

[baymule]

Knowing they were planted by your great great grandmother makes them even more beautiful.

 

[897tgigvib]

Our plants are our heritage. Journey, you've inherited such a special heritage. Hard to tell, but those Iris may be the same as my aunt Eleanor's that she called Indian Summer.

 

[thistlebloom]

That's sweet Journey. It looks like your handing that legacy down to your daughters too.

 

[lesa]

I know I have told this story before, but your bouquet reminds me of it. My grandmother had a lovely spot for climbing sweet peas on the side of her porch. I always loved them. Many years after she was gone, I drove past her old house. The sweet peas had spread up and down the road for at least a mile, in the ditch. What fun! I like to imagine some of the beauty I have planted over the years, might live on, after I am gone... What a lovely thing to share with your daughter! Happy Gardening!