Old timey buttercups are blooming here and there in the flower beds, and some hybrid daffodils out front.......We're expecting a wave of cold air tonight , so put extra leaves on the pink hyacinth that is a descendent of some planted by Mamas sister that died in 1930.....Yes, I know hyacinths don't live very many years........Shhhhh ! Hoping 'Adele' is snuggled down so deeply in her leafy bed she won't hear me....Uncle Louis' purple ones are much more prolific......There was a cluster of each color on either side of the old brick sidewalk leading from the road to Ma's log house when I was growing up....After the house was torn down the yard was farmed just like the wonderfully fertile garden nearby and the fields all around.....The plow scattered Ma's flowers from A to Izzard..... We hadn't gone back to the old house place for several years after my Uncle sold it out of the family...just too sad...One Spring my sisters and I decided we would walk up the old dirt road to see the place...After picking our way through the muddy spots we came out in the wheat field alongside the road...I looked up to see if I could see the house yet and started laughing....Mamas few clumps of 'buttercups' had been scattered all over the hillside by the plow...and there were hundreds of them shining yellow through the short stalks of green wheat......How Mama would have laughed ! Other Spring flowers were scattered here and there and we dug up bulbs to bring home with us...{We had got permission before we went up there. } I figure Mama set out those daffodil bulbs around 1918....And the hyacinth bulbs about the same time....Probably dug them up at an old housplace soemwhere....I have several clumps of them here.....and they are spreading... Every year or so I try to go back up to Ma's place...fearing each time something had happened to the flowers .Last Spring I was sad to see most of the flowers had been killed...no till farming , probably. Luckily there are still plenty of flowers that are in places too wild to plow, and rafts of day lilies have wandered off down through the field in the little wet weather stream that cuts across there....Jeannie T ____________________________________________________________ $65/Hr Job - 25 Openings Part-Time job ($20-$65/hr). Requirements: Home Internet Access http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d60be6f3ddfe2a2edm06duc

Jeannie T., I always thought that bulbs had to be dug up every few years & replanted. We used to do that with the tulip bulbs we had along our sidewalk in front of our house. Think we did that with iris bulbs as well. The iris we would have to divide or split. We would share those with friends. Same with all the hosta or plantin lilly plants we had around our place. 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. I know that my Mother always had them planted out in front of her home & she had no problems with them. We kept getting up grape hyacinth plants in our flower beds in back. I guess the woman that lived there previously liked that flower. No matter how many times I pulled them up, they still continued to come back the following year. I can remember planting snow flowers under our pine trees out in front & they always came up every year..they always told me that spring was on its way!! The people who bought our home tore up all my flowers & plants. Made me sad. However, they wanted the entire yard for their children. We saw the home they came from & they had absolutely NO yard!! The kids must be grown now & are out of the phase of camping out, etc. My sister sent me pictures of the front of their home. They had it professionally landscaped & it looked very nice. We were limited on our funds when it came to landscaping, etc. We would usually go out to the nursery & buy $100 worth of flowers in the spring. Then after Paul had those planted, I would find a plant or 2 on the back porch when I got home from work. I finally had to tell my Mother that we had no more room for plants...but she knew better b/c we had 3/4 of an acre. Since we have moved up here..I guess one would call it the "high dessert"..we have planted mainly perennials...and those which could go without a lot of water. We have beautiful Tx Sage along one side of our home. On the other side, we have butterfly bushes & they really do bring in the butterflies. (My husband has done all the planting...b/c of the steep grade, I'm afraid that I will fall trying to put plants in.) I guess what we do is called Zeroscape.(sp) ~Jen in AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <SOUTHERN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:10 PM Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Spring's about to get 'ice winders'..... > Old timey buttercups are blooming here and there in the flower beds, and > some hybrid daffodils out front.......We're expecting a wave of cold air > tonight , so put extra leaves on the pink hyacinth that is a descendent > of some planted by Mamas sister that died in 1930.....Yes, I know > hyacinths don't live very many years........Shhhhh ! Hoping 'Adele' is > snuggled down so deeply in her leafy bed she won't hear me....Uncle > Louis' purple ones are much more prolific......There was a cluster of > each color on either side of the old brick sidewalk leading from the road > to Ma's log house when I was growing up....After the house was torn down > the yard was farmed just like the wonderfully fertile garden nearby and > the fields all around.....The plow scattered Ma's flowers from A to > Izzard..... > > We hadn't gone back to the old house place for several years after my > Uncle sold it out of the family...just too sad...One Spring my sisters > and I decided we would walk up the old dirt road to see the place...After > picking our way through the muddy spots we came out in the wheat field > alongside the road...I looked up to see if I could see the house yet and > started laughing....Mamas few clumps of 'buttercups' had been scattered > all over the hillside by the plow...and there were hundreds of them > shining yellow through the short stalks of green wheat......How Mama > would have laughed ! Other Spring flowers were scattered here and there > and we dug up bulbs to bring home with us...{We had got permission > before we went up there. } I figure Mama set out those daffodil bulbs > around 1918....And the hyacinth bulbs about the same time....Probably dug > them up at an old housplace soemwhere....I have several clumps of them > here.....and they are spreading... > > Every year or so I try to go back up to Ma's place...fearing each time > something had happened to the flowers .Last Spring I was sad to see most > of the flowers had been killed...no till farming , probably. Luckily > there are still plenty of flowers that are in places too wild to plow, > and rafts of day lilies have wandered off down through the field in the > little wet weather stream that cuts across there....Jeannie T > ____________________________________________________________ > $65/Hr Job - 25 Openings > Part-Time job ($20-$65/hr). 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