Seeds, Plants and Lore

 I'm pouring through seed catalogs again, haunting garden centers and finding people who sell plants from their garden. I know I want it to be as beautiful as it is productive. I started reading about victory gardens from World War 2. The gardens were especially effective because resources were saved for our troops. People were rationed salt, sugar and meat but they used their gardens to feed themselves and their souls. Gardens were full of flowers and vegetables. I think a little of that pluck is called for now. We need to focus on making ourselves self-sufficient. Also in this modern world a garden can provide solace for a weary soul and provide a way to tame stress. I often imagine my self plucking weeds with faces on them! At the end I feel better and that person still lives so they've had a good day. Gardening is something that you develop a passion for. You see planters in all sorts of items you come across and find yourself bravely walking up to someone with a plant that interests you and striking up conversations! Gardeners love to talk and sometimes you come away with not only knowledge but a friend for life and a few plants. My favorite saying comes from my grandmother a little garden superstition. Never thank a person for a plant. It will die. Instead tell them thank you for being my friend. Nature soothes and just sitting in your garden is good for you. Be warned though once it becomes a passion you'll sit til you get an idea and then you are off again.
Today's garden catalog...Rogue Valley Roses! We got ours three years ago and last winter Semi truck slid down the hill and knocked down two of them. The other roses were destroyed.  As we were cleaning up the mess in the shrapnel of crushed and destroyed flowers were sprigs of rose buds. Not my big three year old plants but it gave me heart that I would see white and red blooms again someday! They ship bare root and they are so healthy!

  https://www.roguevalleyroses.com/allroses