84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 10, 2003 On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards Joyce Bupp Tiny purple blooms, each with a white dot in the center, are a Mother’s Day reminder. The flower clusters of purple verbena dangle gracefully at the ends of stems spilling out of a hanging basket. With blossoms of one of my mother’s favorite col ors, the verbena was a thoughtful gift from a family friend a year ago. The kind gesture paid honor to her life, which had peacefully ended a few months earlier. When I remarked recently that the plant had happily wintered the year’s brutal cold in our chilly greenhouse and was again cov ered with flowers, our friend ob served that it meant mother is still around. “Actually, mother’s popping up all over the place,” I replied, gesturing toward the yard where f ' 6 PC. BEDROOM SET'' In Oak Or Cherry i Includes Bed Set Nightstand Highboy | Lowboy Dresser and Mirror [ m n Beg. Ret. $3000.00 > Cash Price $1729 95! 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Ret. ; CLOSEOUT $1,889.95 i CLOSEOUT Ca(h pr , ce | *569" $869.95 / 3019 Hempland Road, Lancaster 717-397-6241 Stores in: LANCASTER • YORK • CARLISLE • LEBANON STORE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9-9 • Sat. 9-6; Sunday 12 to 5 PM • No Refunds 'All Silts Flml For puichiiei with s check, bring FINANCING S • Cnh S Cirry driven license snd phone numbin AVAILABLE , Not responsible tor typographical errors We reserve the right to substitute gift items wooded area of their property, a haven started by a prior owner who filled it with shade lovers like dogwoods, wild azalea, and rhodendrons. Just a two-foot sap ling when we moved it, the dog wood is now a healthy eight-foot er with spreading branches, covered appropriately this past week with blooms. Another living legacy from mother are several thick clumps of peony foliage, their sturdy stems fattening round buds on the ends. She really enjoyed a long hedge of pink peonies which was the beauty of the neighbor hood when it was in full blossom, and never failed to send visitors away with an armful of the fat, fragant flowers when they were at their prettiest in late May. An old-fashioned bleeding heart is dangling valentine shaped, two-toned pink blooms in a semi-shaded bed viewed from a kitchen window. When I took the bleeding heart plant to her on a Mother’s I**" Day several years ago, I I mom handed it back and asked me to plant it in my garden for her. Now it has a similar neighbor, not yet blooming, but hopefully a youngster of the pure- white version she also grew. A clump of foliage in the same bed, pushing long stems with fat round buds at the top, caught me by surprise when I spied it a few days ago. After a little mental searching, I remembered digging the clump of alliums, or “flower ing onions,” which appear happy in their new location. It’s proba bly appropriate that its neighbor ing columbine and astilbe, sweet violets in several different colors, the lilies-of-the-valley, the bleed ing hearts have put down roots near the old bird bath also sal vaged from mother’s garden. Even one of her prized rhubarb stalks has settled in at a comer of one bed. Mother taught me many things household skills like cooking, canning and sewing, a love of reading and words, and the phi losophy of making do with what was available and doing without if necessary. But, in our joint ma HERNLEY’S FARM EQUIP., INC. Elizabethtown, Pa. 717-367-8867 B.H.M. FARM EQUIP. INC. Annville, Pa. 717-867-2211 B. EQUIP., INC. Waynesboro, Pa, 717-762-3193 turity, it was flowers and garden ing that we shared with the most fervor. White and purple lilacs bloom ing in the yard, the iris we traded back and forth pushing out buds, daylilies spreading their sturdy selves, stalks of yucca and peren nial geranium thriving on the bank of the goldfish pond, bring to mind the refrain of a popular country song. The lyrics note that what’s important from a life is not what you take, but what you leave behind you, when you go. Our Mother’s Day flowers this year will be from the green legacy left behind by one whose teach ings to her children to “bloom where you are planted” continue to grow on. Not only is she popping up all over around here, but she’s multi plying as well. FARMERS EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY Airville, Pa. 717-862-3967 WERTZ FARM & POWER EQUIPMENT, INC. PA Rt. 516, Glen Rock, Pa. 717-235-0111 C.J. WONSIDLER BROS. Quakertown, Pa. 215-536-7523 New Tripoli, Pa. 215-767-7611 Oley, Pa. 215-987-6257 GRUMELLi FARM SERVICE Quarryville, Pa. 717-786-7318
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