Missing Country

Read a blog - Pure Florida - that took me for a walk through this beautiful Florida country. Maples blooming, sparkleberries swelling, just the country. It made me a little homesick when they talked about the blue berries that were getting ready to bloom. I too had blue berries and gave them that shot of acid fertilizer - I was fated to only see one blooming season from them before life took me away to the city. I have an album of pictures of just my garden and animals that I grew over the years - was looking at it a while back and saw a picture of my son about six holding a frog - had forgotten all about that picture.
Today I grow plants in pots because I rent and who knows where I may go next. I have a cape jasmine that came from a cutting off of my grandmother's bush - she is gone now - I also have amaylis from her place. From my mother, who is still with us I have a beautiful double hybiscus and if I can get it into a larger pot it should recover from being pot bound for a while. I want to get a cattly guava from my mother that originally came from me and see how it does in a large pot.
My room mate and I grew tomatoes in a huge pot he brought home from work. I told him it needed more dirt and that three plants were too many even if the pot is big - we still had plenty of tomatoes off of those plants. This year with his injuries and me not being able to lift we couldn't add the needed dirt - duh - we could ask the neighbor to help us. Not the horse - the nice young lady who lives next to us - not to worry she drives heavy equipment for a living and still manages to look very nice. All this talk of plants makes me want to get outside. I need to buy a couple of lawn chairs so I can at least sit on the porch, get a little sunshine and spy on the neighbors.