Qn Being a
Farm Wife
(ahd other hazards
Joyce Bupp
Their smiling faces never
fail to boost my spirits.
Some are old-fashioned
smiles of purple features on
cream-colored faces, others
may be bluish-black grins
beaming against sunshiny
yellow. Newer versions of the
smiles sport pastels of coral
features against pale salmon,
or contrasting shades of lav
endar. \
Pansies of all colors
are my favorite early spring
flower.
One of my most cherished
memories of my maternal
grandparents is the garden
catalog'-perfect bed of pansies
they rased each spring dur
ing their retirement years.
The faces of my grandparents
will forever be entwined in
my thoughts with the perky
“personality” smiles of the
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especially-bountiful green
thumbs.
But the life span of pansies
is usually shortened by a spell
of heat that inevitably blan
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May to early June, often just
as they are at their most
beautiful. So it was delightful
when, in the last few years,
pansies began to show up at
garden centers in early fall,
allowing us to enjoy them in
stead for months.
Thriving in moist, cool
temperatures, pansies are a
perfect flower for wintering
in our barely-heated green
house. In fact, through the
brutal winter we have just
(hopefully) bid goodbye, they
were among the few plants
that remained a healthy and
thriving green. With the en
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cheerful blooms earning relo
cation to in-house places
where their smiles can be
more readily shared.
In the midst of enjoying
the pansy outburst, I sudden
ly remembered one recent
day that a batch of forcing
bulbs were probably forcing
their way out of their pots.
Late last fall. The Farmer
found them on sale during an
equipment parts run and sur
prised me with the collection
of daffodil and hyacinth po
tential.
Since it was then already
late in the year, the bulbs
were quickly tucked into
pots, and packed into a cou
ple of large cardboard boxes
stuffed full with a thick, insu
lating cocoon of crispy-dry
maple leaves. After chilling
out for a couple of weeks on
the basement porch, they got
a hasty relocation to the
ground cellar one night in
December when tempera
tures headed for the bottom
of the thermometer.
One bright morning last
week, I lugged the boxes out
side the ground cellar so the
pots could begin slowly
warming. In a few weeks,
they should be ready to join
the pansies in adding floral
cheeriness to lingering chilly
days.
As spikes of greening grass
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begin poking through the
dormant, dull, ice-crusted
outside of the past many
month, we collectively em
brace the signs of returning
life and cheery color. Pussy
willows have pushed out
furry catkins and the graceful
cascading limbs of weeping
willows wear a golden cast of
color. Buds of forsythia
shrubs fatten and show early
hints of the burst of yellow
they will soon erupt into.
And a friend at church
notes that her crocus have
been blooming for days at a
sheltered comer of their fam
ily’s home.
If there was any doubt
about the inevitable turn of
the season, even with pansy
smiles parked on the kitchen
window, it was erased a few
days ago. Parked outside the
garage after an extended ab
sence was our old, heavy
duty, faithful riding mower,
fresh from the machine shop
and a lengthy overhaul.
Could those pansy smiles
really be knowing grins that
lawn mowing season is about
to start?
On the other hand, it’s a
better alternative than shov
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to their needs, any gardener can grow these
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• Bonsai Who better to explain the fascinat
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