Wednesday, May 19, 2010

I'm Not Dead Yet

So here's a story for you: I planted flowers last spring(2009), a bunch of different kinds, and one type in particular grew like a bush but never flowered. When winter came I just left everything out on the porch and everything died of course...or so I thought. The flowerless bush plant in particular turned all brown and crusty.

This spring when it started to get a little warmer something green started growing in the big pot with the dead brown bush...I just figured that some seeds from the overhead trees must be sprouting. I just paid it no mind for about a month till the end of March when I started to think about planting some more flowers. When I got around to cleaning out the dead plants from the pots I had I noticed something that I thought to be impossible the plant growing in the big pot was the same plant that had been the massive bush the year before! It was growing again and it wasn't growing from an old seed or anything it was growing right out the what I thought was the dead plant! Anyway it's been growing like crazy again but this year...







I had planted more of the same flower this year because I didn't know what the bush was till it flowered...here's a new spout...

1 comment:

Paula said...

How pink and pretty, I wonder what it's called. You obviously planted a perennial (like my coreopsis around the pond) that will slumber through the winter and reappear in spring. Lucky to have a lovely one. Will it outgrow its pot?