One year ago today I visited my Mother at her home on Rollingwood and noticed that one of the giant hibiscuses was blooming. Mother walked out with me to see it and I snapped her picture. It turned out to be the last picture of her before her stroke the next day, and we lost her only 13 days after this picture was taken.
Way back the previous fall I bought four woebegone hibiscus plants off the garden center bargain racks at Lowes for a dollar each. There was virtually no green left on them, but I decided to gamble four bucks on the chance they'd sprout again in the spring... and, how about that, they did!
And they are blooming again now. How I'd love to show Mother.
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