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Jennifer at As Cozy As Spring is hosting the Loveliness of Gardens.  She’s a perfect hostess for this fair.  She has the most wonderful plants in her garden!

I had planned this post about my little patch of dirt we’ve put together.  We have to have a raised bed because the soil is very rocky and it’s just too hard to dig it’s easier.  But, we’ve all been sick.  Usually, when I’m sick I’m just feeling under the weather, but this time around, this cold hit hard.  So, we went to my parents house to recuperate this weekend.  While there, I took pictures of my mother’s wonderful flowers.  She has taken to gardening and it has become her passion (she’s also using gardening to fill the time she had spent with my youngest brother who moved out 3 weeks ago when he found a good job in Dallas). 

I don’t know the names of many of her flowers and her garden puts mine to shame.  I take after my mother and have a pretty green thumb.  If I would only take the time and effort I know my gardens can be spectacular.  I only need to change my mindset–this is my permanent home (God willing) and I need to make it so.

Hydrangeas.  I love these flowers.

My mother calls these, in Korean, Saucer Flower.  Of course, that helps me not a bit in finding out the real name.

The geranium was my maternal grandmother’s favorite flower.  My mother and sister have an abundance of geraniums around their homes.  I plan on doing the same.

It has come as a surprise as I write this to realize that taking pictures of this garden gave my mother and me a precious memory.  She was so happy to show me her garden.  It’s a garden of love–the love she gave us as she tended to us, and raised us in this world that is still so foreign to her.  What a lovely gift I received today. 

Here’s a final look at one of her flower beds.