Every year the Strankmans, the old retired couple now dead, who previously owned our property, still welcome us to Spring with a cluster of flowers that come up in our yard. It is a much appreciated legacy that they have left us.
I imagine it was Mrs. Strankman who planted the bulbs, and created a small circular flower garden with a fake-looking wooden “wishing well” as the main feature. We didn’t much care for the wishing well, so we made it disappear forty-five years ago, when we bought the place. The flower bulbs however remained in the ground and come up every year to welcome us to Spring.
Those flowers bloom before the grass takes over. Once the grass starts to overpower the flowers, I always avoid mowing over the area where the flowers grow, because those flower bulbs need their leaves to photosynthesize enough sunlight, to give energy back to the bulbs so they can bloom again next year.
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