efprince's Blog

Weeds and memories and flowers
May 15, 2009 | 5:24 PM PST
Tags: weeding , memories , flowers , hibiscus

All this rain has made the weeds go absolutely crazy. But at least the ground is so wet, they come out pretty easy. So today I've been weeding. I used to love weed flower beds with my mother. She passed away last June, but we would weed her extensive flower beds side by side. You could always tell where she weeded and where I weeded. She grew up on a farm and weeded methodically and neatly. Me, I pull mine out and throw them behind me and then rake them up afterwards. My mom would pull, shake the dirt off, then lay them down in neat little rows, all facing the same direction - so neat and tidy. It used to fascinate me. Her sister, my Aunt Dorothy, would weed the same way, and when we all three would be weeding together, I felt very inferior! LOL!

I also visited Lowes today and bought some perrenials and annuals - some for containers, some for my flower beds and another hibiscus, just because! I really do love hibiscus. I remember living in Puerto Rico and they grew wild everywhere there and bloomed all year long. We had them lining our driveway - I just loved them. I hope tomorrow is nice so I can get some of these things planted!