Bumper crop
My mentor and plant benefactor for my gardening hobby has always been my dear sweet Mom. I apprenticed under her watchful eye for most of my formative years (other blog entries will detail those adventures), and one of my favorite plants were the Cannon Balls. This was one of the tricks she used to keep a small boy’s short attention span focused—giving plants fun names. Of course she was talking about Canna Lilies, but proper nomenclature came much, much later. Until this pa...

















