Sharon's blog: Remembering: July 2011

<p>Somebody said:  God gave us memories so we could see roses in December. </p>
<p>Or something like that. </p>
<p><img src="http://garden.org/pics/2011-07-08/Sharon/aa323e-250.jpg" border="0" alt="2011-07-08/Sharon/aa323e" style="float: right; margin: 5px;" />When December comes along, this blog should help, my mind is already pretty muddled with its accumulation of memories. It needs all the help it can get.</p>
<p>I haven't added to my garden this year, unless you count those few things I added last fall. Like the hydrangea a friend gave to me. I told her I had no room, she gave it to me anyway and then went ahead and planted it. It grew in spite of me and now, somehow, also in spite of me it's blooming.  Tiny little thing, and white. I have no idea if it's one that will change color with the soil content, but now that it has my attention I might just help it along a little bit.  We'll see.</p>
<p>The roses took off in April, right about the time the rains came in swift torrents, deluges, floods. And while my little town was fighting off the raging Tennessee River, the roses just kept on blooming and thriving while very nearly floating, even those I'd given up for dead during the drought last summer.  Yay for the roses.</p>
<p>The irises weren't too happy with all the water, so I had very few blooms from many of them.  And tulips. </p>
<p>Anyway...here I am surrounded by daylilies that have been blooming since late May. Amazing things, I weedwhacked them down to the ground last August, the drought had turned them various shades of brown, they were an ugly sight. Then the rains came and now their blooms seem neverending. I want to remember them when the winds blow brown and gray in winter.  Some have no names, except those that I gave them. They are that old. There's Uncle Bill's Red, Bette's huge ruffled yellow, Ninna's pale yellow, Gramma's burgandy, and Aunt Bett's orange.  Purple Paw Print from a friend who once lived in California, and the pale one th<img src="http://garden.org/pics/2011-07-08/Sharon/cc9960-250.jpg" border="0" alt="2011-07-08/Sharon/cc9960" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" />at reminds me of moonlight that came from New York. I had a map one time that told me all their names...if I could only find that map because the tags were lost in the floods/ice/drought of the past few years. And so I have daylilies, old friends blooming all over my gardens. </p>
<p>And what's to come? Butterfly bushes and coneflowers and garden phlox and still more roses, crocosmia and sedum and balloon flowers.  I haven't seen a sign of last year's mums. </p>

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