there is a wonderful garden at the house-turned-business next door. i often see the owner lovingly pruning the beautiful box of various flowers. as she cuts the blooms she throws them into the street...it seems sad to me. she tends to the garden all year in anticipation of the fall blooms, and then once they are finally ready to shine she casts them aside as if they are a burden. i usually gather the unwanted and create a perfectly mismatched bouquet to decorate our dining room.
yesterday i noticed that she was cutting these beauties, and i asked her if i could have the remnants. instead of giving me the flowers from the street she cut 4 of the heartiest blooms and handed them to me. she explained that she cuts the flowers at their prime because it enables the bush to create more blooms. if she didn't prune them....they would begin to droop, and eventually they would die.
i love my little neighborhood. and fresh flowers.
c.
3 comments:
that IS lovely!
It's sad that in order to keep the roses coming you have to letgo of the live ones! But you're making them shine.
ah! so that explains the flowers i saw at your place yesterday! mystery solved.
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