Grandma's Garden Legacy
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These photos were taken this spring by my sister Susie. The journaling reads:
Grandma always had gardens – vegetables, fruit trees, and beds of flowers. “Helping” her in her large vegetable garden is among my earliest memories. Among her flowers were daffodils, Japanese lanterns, Chinese money plants, and irises.
Daddy learned gardening skills from her, and he always grew vegetables in our back yard on Manchester Road. He made sure that I participated in the school’s summer gardening program, growing beans and peppers and carrots next to his crops. And he continued to grow tomatoes and strawberries when we moved to Curtis Drive.
The only tangible remnants of this family tradition are these irises. When she moved from Stewart Avenue to Fairlawn in 1950, Grandma took along clumps of iris. Years later, she gave some rhizomes to Aunt Maxine. And a few years ago, Maxine passed on some of those flowers to Susie, who planted them in the tiny garden behind her condo. They don’t bloom every year, but they did this year – a legacy running through generations, linking the past to the present.
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