A great idea! At least 3/4 of the plants in my yard are "pass-a-long plants". Lots of old fashioned plants are very easy to root and/or layer to provide new plants. You can also save seeds (in the refrigerator, in a film canister is a good way) over the winter to plant in the spring. Now is the time to gather seeds. Some perreniels can be planted now, especially in the south, to establish root systems. Even though they die back in the winter, next spring will bring new surprises! I have canna lillies and cypress vine from my paternal grandmother's place, a bleeding heart vine from my maternal grandmother's home (the story is that it limped along for years and never bloomed until the year summer after she died, and then it covered the porch and bloomed prolifically!) My husband's grandmother has given us several different colors of daylillies, and I got cuttings of yellow-bell (forsythia), hydrangea, begonias, butter-&-egg, and many other things from my and my husband's mother. These things are indeed a part of the family history, because many of them go back to another generation, or family friends. So, I would encourage anyone to try to take plants and start them in your own yard. It will be a loving and constant reminder of family, and a heritage for your own children in years to come. sorry to get off on a tangent..... gardening is another favorite thing of mine, along with genealogy! Cindy Forehand Watts > -----Original Message----- > From: Deborah Byrd [SMTP:dbyrd@lightcom.net] > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:58 AM > To: GASCREVE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [GASCREVE] Passing on memories > > Here is something that has been knocking around in the mental attic for a > while. A friend of mine is redoing her garden that has a funky lilac bush > > in. The lilac bush comes from a cutting off of a lilac that grew on her > father's farm. It is a living reminder of the old family home place. > > Has anyone else ever done used cuttings from plants at the family home > place to keep memories alive? Apparently on one of the Byrd farms in > florida was a wonderful mulberry tree that the daughters would raid for > the > berries. Use the berries to make play necklaces. Kinda wish I had a > cutting from that tree, of course it wouldn't grow out west but it would > be > a nice reminder of the family. > > Deborah Byrd > > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/