Re: Heirloom plants

Dear Myrna,

I grow a tall, lanky, towering rose, once-flowering with very fragrant and
double fuchsia pink flowers, and subjected to all pest and diseases because
it was my grandma's favorite. The color and the great perfume all remind me
to her. She didn't mind her favorite rose's lanky habit (disguised between
other shrubs) and poor health. Those roses gave her childhood memories; they
were grown in the church she used to visit with her parents every Sunday.
With the years she obtained from the monks (no longer there) a small rooted
plant she planted in her garden. She always was marvelled with their
perfume, and cut the blooms for the house, even if they do not opened so
well as they're so double she wouldn't mind.
At my grandma's death I was lucky to secure a couple of cuttings, as today
her garden is overgrown, her roses are gone forever  and the house is no
longer ours. And that's why I -very happily- keep this old rose in my
garden.

Happy growing

Jose


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From: Myrna Miller <mmiller@nemontel.net>
To: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
Date: domingo 24 de mayo de 1998 3:51
Subject: Heirloom plants


>Hi, all...
>
>Today I was weeding around my Golden Glow (rudbeckia laciniata 'Hortensia')
>and I started thinking about the plants that we get from friends or family,
>and why we grow them. My Golden Glow is from my great-grandparents'
>homestead in South Dakota. They moved there in about 1906, but I don't know
>if my great-grandmother brought her Golden Glow with her from Kansas, or if
>she got it from a neighbor in South Dakota. I do know that I value that
>hand-me-down more than I value anything I ever bought.
>
>What plants have emotional meaning for you? What plants do you grow for
>sentimental reasons, and why? To tell the truth, I joined this list because
>I'm very interested in why people garden and why they grow what they do.
>The practical and scientific stuff can be found in books, but only in a
>forum like this list can you find the fascinating discussion about what
>people really grow and why.
>
>Myrna, Zone 3, Montana
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