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July 23, 2009
Grandma Atha's Roses
For as long as I can remember my Grandma's yard has been full of flowers. When she moved into an apartment last November my sister began asking about transplanting some of the flowers to preserve their heritage. She uncovered a great family story about the origin of her rose bushes. Here is the story as told by sister Sarah:
These roses started from one long- stemmed rose that Grandpa Lortz brought back to Grandma from the big ceremony when the Anderson Herald and the Anderson Bulletin newspapers merged to become the new Anderson Herald-Bulletin many, many years ago (1949). Just one little rose. The plant was started from the rose, placed in a glass of water and put on the kitchen window sill. After it wilted and died, she just stuck the stem 3 or 4 inches into the ground outside and put a glass jar over the top of it. It was in summer, and it was in a partly shady, partly sunny spot. Grandma says, "Sometimes they live, and sometimes they don't...It just decided to grow." And she also says..."You can do any rose that way."
60 years later here is Grandma's rose:
Here's my attempt:
Maybe they will decide to grow.
Posted by Anna at July 23, 2009 11:43 AM
Comments
Anna, this is great! It belongs in the bio we are writing! I hope your roses grow. I brought a pink and cream one home from Loveland to try.
Posted by: Leatha Lemen at July 23, 2009 8:27 PM
I like your idea with the roses.. I'll be interested to see if it works for you.
Personally, I cannot buy flowers at all anymore, or for that matter, any living plant. I have a terrible history with gardening, managing to kill off everything I've ever put into the ground.. a few even wilted and died on the way home from the nursery.
You could actually hear the screams of the unfortunate geraniums or zinnias as I drove away with them in the back seat of my car.. it was not pretty.
So I live vicariously through those who can grow something other than milkweed and dandelions.
Posted by: John Dean at July 27, 2009 2:04 AM