Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -- Day 240 (253)

While at HyVee this afternoon, I talked w/ Karen, my neighbor down the street.   Her garden was selected  Garden of the Month by the city garden club, and she had three Chrysanthemum plants in her cart. I commented on the difficulty I've always had getting my Mums to come back each year, but this year I finally had one plant return.  She said that she's never had any Mums make it through the winter so I told her about Mom's beautiful Mums and how they return every year.  Karen said that we live too far north for the Mums to survive our winters, and that Mom's Mums, being 150 miles to the south, would make it.  I'm definitely not a master gardener so the only explanation for my Mum plant returning, after years of failure, can be that Mom's green thumb blessed my garden.