林貝卡美文Perennial Garden之學習筆記

I hope our love is also perennial and lasting forever and ever.

My love affair with flowers is not that sweet or tender, because I'm forced to do all the planting and watering in the garden. My hubby loves flowers and trees, however, he has no time to take care of them. Until last evening had I realied that I forgot watering our "new guinea impatiens" which was hung at the front porch for days.Saw their leaves dropped and flowers withered, I felt very sorry heartedly.

I gently unhooked the flower pot and put it on the floor of front porch, watered it with Miracle Gro and planty of liquid. But I didn't expect to see any miracles, I thought it's dying.

This morning I looked out of the window, surprisedly to find our "new guinea impatiens" come back!! Is that amazing? Only one night, the stems straighten up again and the leaves radiate vivid glow! Wow, what a renewed spirit in this plant?!

Thank Becky for sharing this beaufilu writing with us today! And I also learned some names of the flowers: phlox, sweet williams, jonney jump-ups and candytuft.

Thanks again and have a great Thursday！

Perennial Garden 原文

Perennial Garden(Excerpt)
Author：Jackie Shelton

　That spring I went wild at the nursery, spending truckloads of money on flowers - sweet williams, johnny jump-ups, candytuft and fragrant phlox. I was amazed at new breeds and colors I had never seen before, all because I had never bothered to look in the perennial section. I realized there might be a lot of things just waiting to be discovered, if I opened my eyes and looked.

　 The first spring John and I worked in the yard together tested the limits of our relationship. I discovered what true love was when I tried to build a planter box with the help of the finickiest man on the planet - a man who not only reads all the directions before starting a project, but who goes to the hardware store and buys all the recommended tools. I’m a woman who is content to pound nails into the wall with my shoe.

　 Summer arrived with our love intact and plenty of perennials planted everywhere. We made it through three more springs before completing the landscape of our front yard, and then we decided to make our relationship legal. We figured if our love could survive the planting of a two-hundred-square-foot lawn and the construction of a granite patio, it could survive anything.

　 We were married three years ago - in the spring, naturally - and have experienced both the joy and frustration that come with a marriage license. My love affair with flowers is a tender one. But the difference between flowers and people is that people can choose to be annuals or perennials. Sometimes when I am working in the garden, I look across at John, and I have no doubt that the two of us will keep growing together, year after year. We are perennials.

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