It's a special day for Beverly @ How Sweet the Sound. She is celebrating the 3rd birthday of Pink Saturday!!! I started participating in Pink Saturday because it was somewhat of a challenge for me to find pinks to photograph and it has been a wonderful learning experience. To help celebrate this week, I would like to share some flowers from our farm. Come stroll around with me and see what all is blooming pink.
Trailing petunias
Sultanas
Yarrow
Verbena
Rose of Sharon
Lantana
Milk and Wine Lily
Zéphirine Drouhin Rose (the most heavenly fragrance)
Some of these flowers are old Southern pass-along plants. The Rose of Sharon is also known as Althea and is cousin to hibiscus. The Milk and Wine lilies are some I dug up from my great-grandmother's house when we first got the farm.
My great-grandmother was married in 1910 and she dug up and moved some of these Milk & Wine lilies from her mother's house to her new home. When my grandmother got married in 1929, she dug up and moved some of the Milk & Wine lilies to her house. When my Mom got married in 1952, she dug up and moved Milk & Wine lilies to the house where I grew up. These flowers had been growing at my great-grandmother's house for 85 years when I got mine back in 1995, so they are now well over 100 years old. I just love plants with a history.
HAPPY PINK SATURDAY BIRTHDAY! Do check out Beverly's blog to see how others have chosen to celebrate PINK this week.
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Please also remember to register for my 5 Year Blog Anniversary Give-Away.namasté,
Happy Pink Saturday weekend! Your flowers are all just beautiful; love the pink! Enjoy your weekend.
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Sandi
Beautiful flowers, love your pass-along plants:@)
ReplyDeleteHappy Pink Saturday Becky Sweetie...
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous share today. I so enjoyed my stroll through your gardens. The Rose of Sharon has always been one of my favorite. Yours is breathtakingly beautiful.
What a wonderful history behind your plants sweet friend. Thank you for sharing with me this afternoon. Have a glorious weekend. Many hugs and much love, Sherry
Truly enjoyed your blog and your pretty pink flowers.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty flowers!
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Hugs
Charo
Absolutely gorgeous flowers, Becky...and I love that each has a story~
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ReplyDeleteBeautiful flowers.
Dee
Those lilies are amazing...and how neat that they're family heirlooms!
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Sarah
I can almost smell those flowers in your garden from here. HPS!
ReplyDeleteJoyce M
Gorgeous flowers, Becky, I'm sure the farm has changed a lot since we drove by there before you and I met.
ReplyDeleteHere's a wink ;) for the pink!
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ReplyDeleteLovely flowers!
~ Gabriela ~
I have little pink in bloom @ this moment -- will remedy that for next year!
ReplyDeleteHappy PS 3rd Birthday - there's a lot to celebrate! Your pink flowers are very pretty.
ReplyDeleteSome of your flowers I am familiar with and others not. Love them all. It would be a drab world without flowers! Happy Pink Saturday~
ReplyDeleteGinny
What a wonderful legacy and story those flowers have for your family. Beautiful, too. Happy Pink Saturday!
ReplyDeleteAren't those pretty? I love all the old-fashioned names, too. The tradition of passing plants from gardener to gardener is a wonderful thing. Have you read Elizabeth Lawrence's book "Gardening for Love - the Market Bulletins" - ? It's all about this tradition.
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what a beautiful pink story you tell of these lovely flowers. HPS to you! Anne
ReplyDeleteHmm. My last comment went somewhere, not sure - b/c I was redirected elsewhere. So, I'm back, I thoroughly enjoyed my visit and love the fact that these flowers have a pass along history ... a long one at that. My mom (her late 80's) did the same,I have some from my grandmother (whose been gone a long time now). It is a blessing, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteIf this my comment turns out to be redundant - please go ahead and delete it. Now, I'll see where I go this time! Thanks, Jenn
Happy Pink Saturday, Becky. Thank you for always making Pink Saturday special.
ReplyDeleteI love flowers with history, too, and yours are gorgeous. We have iris, hosta and roses that came to us from loved ones.
Wow, gorgeous photos, Becky. You've made Pink Saturday proud. Thank you so much for updating my blog address in your blogroll. I appreciate it more than I can say.
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