Outside My Window

May 9, 2013 · Filed under children, gardening, postaday, prompts, Uncategorized · Tagged 20 Lines or less, conversations, daily prompt Landscape, gardening, irisees, plant propogation postaday, rootstock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside my window

I smiled as I pointed the irises out to my son on our way to the bus stop.

“There must be over 100.” I told him. “My grandmother got the rootstock from grandpa’s aunt, the rootstock of those irises are over 100 years old!”

“Flowers can live that long?” he said.

I explained how the rootstock of a iris grow and multiplies, much like people or animals.

I told him their names: Portwine, Lilac Bush, Sunshine. I looked at him, how life goes on, if we are lucky. I thought of how fragile we are, how that one plant living a hundred years ago meant that 100 plants were living today.