... at the Botanical Gardens on Monday afternoon. Meeting a friend who signed up with me to show up with odds and ends clipped from home gardens that will hopefully turn into attractive decorations to place on tables, mantles for beautifying the hundred year old farm house. The building where we work and put our creations was donated to the city to be the beginning of local garden spot for the community to enjoy. The quite large house, originally home place of Adams family, was relocated to property that has been planted, cultivated over time to be a very attractive show place, rental property for events and locale of spring and fall fund-raiser plant sales.
This is where I was last Saturday, when painting pumpkins and ghosts on small faces. Again on Monday when I met Shirley, with my bucket full of greenery trimmed from an overgrown loropetalum bush on Eleanor St. in Decatur. Plus two bunches of chrysanthemum blooms purchased to add color to the arrangements. Shirley had lots of blooming things she had trimmed from her garden and yard: zinnias, bright yellow daisy-looking rudbeckia, lavender lantana, something with tiny white blooms she called dragon's breath. Me with my yellow, purple and lime green mums.
We always have a good time when we get together - chatting about family, local events, spouses. I thought I would be finished in an hour or so, but it took much longer than expected. I can usually get there at 1 p.m. and be headed home before three. But I got there early and still was after 3:00 pm leaving. Lots of places to put cut flower arrangements: two large antique dining tables, several massive wooden sideboards/ buffets, four mantle pieces, plus various smaller tables in sitting areas.
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