Well, it has been a bit since my last post, but I have been up to my neck in packing boxes. Fortunately, I have friends helping with this formidable task. One of the questions that I have been asked a lot is about my gardens. Won’t I miss them??? Yes and no. It was getting to be far too much work. I’m planning to take some of my irises and a few other favorite perennials, and then I’ll let friends and neighbors take what they want.
True story . . . one of my friends moved a few years ago. She, too, had beautiful irises and other plantings. She told the new owners that if they decided that they didn’t want the plants in the garden, they should call her and she would come back and remove them. The owner assured her that he would do that. Not long after, she drove by her old home and found that everything had been mowed down. So, I have no illusions about my gardens, and frankly, that is okay with me. I’ll take some special plants to my soon to be new home and that will be fine with me.
When I sold the house where my aunts had lived, I brought home these pretty irises.