It just kills me to dig up our beautiful plants and throw them away. I know they will make great mulch somewhere but they have been so faithful. They grow and flower and re-seed and do all those wonderful things that faithful plants do. All they ask for in return is sunshine, water and love. Sounds like a fair deal to me ~ and now I'm breaking our covenant. I feel bad.
So I decided that one way to assuage my guilt would be to give the plants away ~ to neighbors ~ neighbors who would love them and enjoy them and let me have visitation rights.
First step was a note in my neighbors' mail boxes with the enticing offer of free plants. Free works for me. I'm a sucker for adopting free plants and giving them a new home. So I hoped that free was the magic word. The next step was leaving my uprooted plants on the sidewalk waiting for their new owners.
I waved roses, a small Japanese maple and ground cover goodbye. Some left under cover of nightfall. One such plant couldn't bear to leave home and moved literally right next door in plain view. I had to laugh because I adopted that heather from the neighbor across the street years ago when she was re-landscaping her front yard. I can look out my window and see it waving at me now from its new home.
I feel much better.
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