Hyacinth bulbs are notoriously short lived ...but someone forgot to tell these from Ma's house! The pink ones have been steadily multiplying...slowly, but steadily, but this year only half came up...I think I'll start digging on the bare side and very carefully dig up to the bulbs and see if I can find out anything....As far as I know theres no more hyacinths or tiny sweet smelling jonquils growing at Ma's home place....LOTS of daffodils, etc....It's one of my favorite "Memory " flowers...along with Uncle Louis's purple hyacinths...Then I love Miss Mariney's Peony...Brother Robert's Yellow Rose of Texas that he dug up for me...Oh yeah..It's a walk down Memory lane when I go walkabout in the yard....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:55:03 -0800 "Jen LaBonte" <AZJen@npgcable.com> writes: > Jeannie T., > > I always thought that bulbs had to be dug up every few years & replanted. > I know I really nurtured hyacinth plants...guess they would be a bulb too. I loved the smell of them so much!! For some reason, they didn't do much for me. ____________________________________________________________ Moms Asked to Return to School Grant Funding May Be Available to Those That Qualify. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d61fc1551c5c2b922m06duc

I got so upset with my mother's landlady when I went down to pack Mama's things up to move her back to Arkansas. I had taken my 2 week vacation and had packed the things she wanted to take with her, had a moving sale, cleaned her house for leaving it, and literally wore myself out. We had moved to that house in 1942 and here Mama was leaving in 1973. There were two fig trees at the back of the yard and a persimmon tree just outside the bedroom window. It was a one br house on a 55' x 300' lot. Mom and Dad had planted lots of flowers around the yard, had planted fruit trees. They had chickens at the back of the property with a large garden between the chicken pen and the yard. The last night we were there, we stayed overnight at my SIL's house, she would later put Mama on the plane. Before I left to head back to Oregon, I told Mama, let's go back to the house and just walk around it. We were walking around the yard, just reminiscing, when here came the landlady and walked with us. This was my time with my Mama, I didn't want someone else intruding. Mama said later that the landlady probably thought I was going to dig up a bunch of the flowers to take home with me and she wanted the yard left nice to rent the house out again. Technically everything that was planted on the property had to be left there, but Mom and Dad had planted everything that was there for her to have a nice yard to show. I had already gotten some starts of some of her flowers. She had gorgeous irises that I got a start from. When I've gone back to Bakersfield, I've driven by the house. It didn't stay the same for very long.Emma > To: southern-chat@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:29:40 -0600 > From: askgranny@juno.com > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Spring's about to get 'ice winders'..... > ....LOTS of daffodils, etc....It's one of my favorite "Memory " > flowers...along with Uncle Louis's purple hyacinths...Then I love Miss > Mariney's Peony...Brother Robert's Yellow Rose of Texas that he dug up > for me...Oh yeah..It's a walk down Memory lane when I go walkabout in the > yard....Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~