The visit with the old owner went very well!! She’s a tad younger than me. She brought me zinnias from her garden. She was so excited to see the house, and seemed very excited about the updates to the kitchen. Loved that we can see the woods from so much of the house. Her husband grew up in the country, so wanted even more acreage and privacy. Sounds like they have a nice piece of property with a pond, too.
Really cool thing was when we went outside to check out the yard. Things she planted 30 years ago are now very mature. Then she finally realized that there was a lilac that had been her Grandma’s, but it doesn’t bloom because it doesn’t get enough sun where it is now. So I told her if she wanted to snip some, she could, so we did and she’s going to try to get it rooted to grow a new one again.
She was also enamored with the magnolia tree by the fire pit that we planted a few years ago. She said they don’t often survive this far north. She said it looks very happy, and I told her we had 20 blossoms this year, and the last one just opened yesterday. So we all took a little sniff because it was down low enough to reach.
I had a bottle of peach bellini, so we each had a glass of that while we chatted. (Also had cheese n crackers but nobody touched that.) It was a very nice visit, probably lasted one and a quarter hours. She and my neighbor who has stayed in touch with her all these years each picked out a slice of the hickory tree to take with them.
So SUCCESS!! A new friend made!
Perfect! Love that she’s going to try to propagate the Lilac that was her Grandmas!
I regret leaving old Iris behind at my other farm, but Mom has some of our, ‘old family heirlooms’ in her garden from both Milwaukee and up at our, ‘Summer Escape from The City,’ at Silver Lake, where one set of Grandparents eventually retired. *HEART*