I was surprised to get a call from John Deere this morning that my garden tractor was ready to be delivered today. Wow. I'd called them on March 12th for annual maintenance and they picked it up on the 17th. Other years the whole process of initial call to final delivery had taken close to two months. I went into Mjolnir to move plants around so I'd have room to store the mower back inside. I noticed little green shoots coming up from the lavender I'd overwintered. I'd tried to overwinter lavender before but it hadn't made it and I was thinking from the brittle stems on these plants I'd be tossing this bunch too. Since the green shoots didn't have the same sort of leaf and were a different color than the lavender, I figured they must be weeds that had taken root. However, when I pulled the green stem out I could definately smell lavender. Huh. Hadn't known that young lavender didn't look at all like the mature plant. Looked at my other lavender containers and they all had green shoots. The question I once bugged my nieces with came back to me: "What did you learn today, that you didnt know before, that you want to remember for a long, long time?" If anyone asks me today, I'll have a ready answer for them.
No comments:
Post a Comment