Accessible Gardening: MoreDisabled Gardeners Laughing With Joy...3, 1 by seacanepain

seacanepain wrote:
Your package is in the mail, Vickie. For real this time! LOL. Mailed it myself. (See, Carrie. With encouragement and reminders we husbands can be trusted to do important stuff. LOL.) It is packed rather tight. Oxalis, a tree holly, a few purple-leaf cannas and a few of the green leaf variety with orange centered, yellow flowers. (What the ladies call “flame cannas.”) Hope that isn’t an overwhelming amount at one time. I thought you might use the extras as a bribe to get someone to help you put them in pots or in the ground.
We have plenty of oxalis, Carrie, if you would like to try growing it up that way. It actually likes cooler weather. You could plant it in honor of your husband’s ancestry. Oxalis violacea is believed to have been the actual plant St. Patrick used to illustrate the Holy Trinity to the pagans so it has a strong association with Ireland.
The ladies loved your logo idea, Scraps. I don’t think Kay is thrilled with the donkey logo and its possible implications. I pointed out her favorite coffee shop has a donkey logo, but she points out the place is named Kick Ass Coffee so it makes sense. The post master got a chuckle out of our donkey logo when he noticed it on the shipping label. He thought I should give her a hat too. That WOULD get me in trouble. Kay is too strongly associated with funky hats. That would almost certainly be taken the wrong way. She’s wearing her coastal cowgirl hat today. A straw cowboy-style hat with a band made of little seashells.
Little V. wanted to get his “Mimi” a yellow Easter hat so she could be like the mysterious “man in the yellow hat” in the Curious George books he loves so much. I’m glad we couldn’t find a yellow hat. Kay would probably have actually worn it to church. LOL. (Jim)
BTW: Vickie and Sheri, you can re-use the water crystals in the packages if you want.. Just dig them into the soil of any moisture loving plants and you won't have to water the plant so often.