Peter, Hibiscus and Anemone.

A conversation between Peter and Jesus.

Peter: ‘ How many times should I forgive my brother/ sister/ child/ a person? I think seven times seems perfectly generous!

Jesus: Not seven! Seventy times seven!

And then Jesus had another one of His stories:

‘A person owed a lot of money.  Those times you could sell your wife and children to pay a debt! He was commanded to do so. The servant bowed down and worshipped him saying: ‘ Please be patient with me, I will pay it all.’

The master of the servant felt compassion and took his chains off and forgave him.

But

The same servant  took a fellow servant by the throat who owed him 100 pence saying: ‘ Pay me!’

The fellow servant got on his knees at his feet saying: ‘ Please be patient with me, I will pay all.’

And

He threw him into prison until he could pay all.

Then there were people who saw all this. What did they do?

They went and told the master.

The master had a lot to say but the result was that the person who was forgiven much but couldn’t forgive little in the story was put with ‘ tormentors’ until they could pay.

Then Jesus steps out of the story and says this:

‘ So like this will my Father do also to you, if you from your hearts do not forgive everyone of you others’ sins.’ ( Sandy’s summary of Matthew 18: 21-35)

Shall we rather be in the garden?

Both these plants will be new to the garden today.

The Anemone, because a friend reminded me through a picture of her plant that 32 years ago we had them in our garden and they slowly died out. We bought two kinds: pink and white.

The Hibiscus I thought we couldn’t grow here until I saw them as standards at Wisely. I have taken off the extra branches and the flower and potted it in a bigger container with sedum Coca-Cola to keep it company while both are small. I hope it grows as well as my friend’s many.

I bought the plants in bloom. Why? I am still waiting for the wisteria to bloom and I was warned it would be a long time by the staff at Wisley.

The garden has a few more newcomers: Aster September Ruby, Euphorbia Robbiae and two Aster Violet Queen plants.

This is what it means:

Likely to thrive in typical garden conditions

Is readily available

Possesses a good constitution

Reasonably resistant to pests and diseases

A top performer and a good choice for the garden.

Does that mean I won’t kill it? Success is ahead.

Then this amusing find. Our garden centre sells flowers past their sell-by date for 49p a bunch. Here are £2  worth.

‘Expiration dates are like little reminders that everything has its time.’

And

‘Remember, freshness is fleeting, but humour is timeless.’

I have my work cut out in the garden.

Take care,

Sandy 🙂