To all of the Mudder’s out there, we appreciate you!
Purchased from MapleMama etsy store San Antonio, Texas
Today for Mother’s Day, I gave the two mother’s in my life the gift that keeps on LIVING and giving. I dug up 5 perennials from my cottage garden collection and shared a packet of “FORGET ME NOT” seeds in a greeting card. The receivers were overwhelmed with emotion for the thoughtfulness that went into digging the plants and carefully placing them in a box, adding a description of each plant on the back of the card, and providing pre-written plant makers so that when they planted the plants they would recall the names of the plants they were given.
Greeting card with personal note, flower seeds and plant markers make an excellent gift along with some bareroot perennials.
The first was an Iris. More specifically, the Iris “Wabash”. It has always been one of my favorites in my garden as she is definitely a show off with her purple and white beauty, eagerly showing up to herald in Spring.
Iris “Eleanor Rooservelt”
I also included other bareroot perennials in the box, such as a Hosta “Patriot”; Yellow Archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon); Snow on the Mountain (Aegopodium podograria ‘Variegatum’); Thornless Blackberry “Triple Crown”, and of course, the Forget Me Not seeds. The Snow on the Mountain and the Iris were especially well received since they were shared from their great-grandmother’s gardens over 30 years ago.
Yellow Archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon)
Snow on the Mountain (Aegopodium podograria ‘Variegatum’)
In closing, we here at The Perennial Garden Society hope that you have the most wonderful Mudder’s Day and that you find your Happy Place in your own Perennial Garden. Happy Gardening!
