Heather

sandyroybessandbugzy28th Dec 202129th Dec 2021December Vegitation 2021

The God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13 : 11

These few stalks of Heather lost many of their little buds as I worked with them. They are in a boot vase which was given to my mother as a florist gift on the day I was born. It is a link with that day and I am so pleased my mother kept it for me. As a child I would put geranium flowers in it.
A pot of Heather in the house must be kept moist otherwise it dies. If it dries out it will keep its colour and be a “dry arrangement”🙂 but it will never revive.

Heather flowers commonly mean good luck, admiration, and protection. Various cultivars come in white, pink, purple, red. There are varieties for Summer / Autumn / Winter / Spring. They are great for a low maintenance garden.

If you would like to see Heather growing naturally here in England please look at my posts: Walking the paths round Hardy’s Cottage… and A simple life : T. E. Lawrence’s Cloud Cottage and Trail.

A few negatives from 1945. Peering into a world 12 years before my husband was born. My father in law once told me while we were working together in his garden and I was planting Heather that this was the name mum wanted for a girl if ever they had one. These negatives were taken by him before he knew:
who he would marry,
how many children he would have,
and how they would choose to live, marry, have him grandchildren and great grand children.
A wonderful experience to look into these and try to understand what he wanted to say through them. His story of where he was.

A few negatives from 1945. Peering into a world 12 years before my husband was born. My father in law once told me while we were working together in his garden and I was planting Heather that this was the name mum wanted for a girl if ever they had one. These negatives were taken by him before he knew:
who he would marry,
how many children he would have,
and how they would choose to live, marry, have him grandchildren and great grand children.
A wonderful experience to look into these and try to understand what he wanted to say through them. His story of where he was.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis

5 thoughts on “Heather”

sandyroybessandbugzy says:

29th Dec 2021 at 5:06 pm

I think they are army guys! Friends of Dad’s in 1945.

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Mary K. Doyle says:

31st Dec 2021 at 2:34 pm

Your photos are as lovely as your words.

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1. sandyroybessandbugzy says:
  
  31st Dec 2021 at 3:49 pm
  
  Ah that is so sweet of you! Have a beautiful New Year’s Day 2022.
  
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Cornelia says:

4th Jan 2022 at 2:29 pm

Heather! I do like them So happy and beautiful without any attention! Brian was precious xx

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1. sandyroybessandbugzy says:
  
  4th Jan 2022 at 3:41 pm
  
  Yes Brian really was amazing! Heather is also so hardy.
  
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