memory plants

This is wonderful! Living tributes to those past and present!

How lovely to have such beautiful reminders of friends.

That Lion's Tail is fabulous. I have plants from my father (we shared a love of plants) and Barbara ( whose garden I raid often) and GoY friends.....Karen, Kath, Brian, Amy, Lulu and Margo. If I wanderer round today I could think of more people but it is wet and blowing a gale out there.
Aren't gardening friends great?

thank you....... reading up on the Lions tail...seems like it will grow from cuttings and flower in one year on 6 foot stems!

Thats the great thing about gardening, there are always plants there to remind you of friends past and present....

Lovely Sandra ....living memories!

I have a rose from my Grandmother's rose garden. When it blooms, it's her saying hello and the fragrance takes me back to her babysitting me.

How nice Sandra, I agree, those plants from friends, family past and present are VERY special. They seems to do very well too :-)

i knew i wasn't the only one with memory plants...Dawn i think maybe we care fore them better then the ones we buy..

I think that you have coined a new term here Sandra " Memory Plants". I have one in my garden, right before she passed away my wife purchased an ornamental cherry tree which I placed in the garden at her chosen location and I do consider it her living presence in our garden and for me that is my memory plant.

I have two - a peace lilly which was presented to my Mum when she retired in about 1971. She would be surprised to see the size of it now!
And the other is a Magnolia stellata which was a birthday present from the son we lost in 2011 - a bit worried about what will happen if we have to move to somewhere with a more manageable garden eventually - would just hate to have to leave it behind.

Loosestrife trees are an amazing way to keep memories..
Stera you could try taking some cuttings just in case you do move..

I too have memory plants both in the house and around my garden, I know I be extra careful with mum and dads plants and the shrubs in the garden that were gifts are always the ones that get the extra special treatment first..

I've been posting "memory plants" for a couple years now. My "Grandma's Rose" and also "My Mother's Iris." It's wonderful to have these living reminders. It's almost like they are still with us.

too true.. reliving memories while we potter...heaven..x

Never thought of taking cuttings from a tree Sandra. I wonder if it would work...

There is a rooting compound you can buy that will increase your chances of success but nothing is guaranteed 100%. Always take several cuttings.

You could even try from seed if it has them Stera or as BG says try a few cuttings.

No seed so far Sandra.. I might try a cutting or two and see what happens.

I also have memory plants, ones that were favourites of my mum and or grew in her garden. but also lupins that remind me of dad. he hated them and wouldn't allow mum to have them in the garden but when he died mum had my brother and I plant 10! So lupins always remind me of dad.