I'm sad for you! I'll keep you in my prayers.

Thank you thank you, what that lady did fits my personality so well, I will be looking around at 2nd hand stores for unusual parasols etc, that say "Wendy is the flower lady of these dahlias ", I.E. Tigger, Pooh, 3 Stooges, Jesus, It will be for kids , that is for sure next year I'll have to add kid benches "inside" the secret dahlia place :)

Thank you for your comment, it really has been mostly fun over the last 15 years. When kids come every year with their parents , they have really grown in 15 years !! There are some down sides to it when people steal and also, I have to bring the flowers in every day about 1 pm as it is hot here in grants pass OR, but I really do enjoy it. I am very social, but stuck at home a lot because of health issues , so I have always enjoyed my Flower Lady table and title. I truly should and could write a book of the stories of the people that buy flowers. One nice young fella about 20, he comes by about every 3-4 days and buys $1 worth, and his dad died 3 years ago to cancer, and he puts the flowers he buys in a vase by his dad's urn. Oh my, those stories and so many others are huge blessings ;) ure glad God made flowers so pretty ;)

It sounds delicious. Hopefully, I'll get to the point that I could make pies out of the fruits of my labor.

I enjoyed just eating off the vine. I also love eating sungold cherry tomatoes with bush beans while I'm watering.

Thanks, what a great story!

My son is creative, artistic, and loves growing things, flowers and scary plants (cacti & carnivores) equally well. We have some more carnivorous plants coming up from seeds, venus, sundews, and pitcher plants. I decided to repost the blog and include his first dino garden as well. Here in the Adirondacks we have pitcher plants in the bogs. I walked by these every year for 13 yrs and never noticed them until he pointed them out to me!