The evening primrose is my favourite plant. I think there are a bunch of varieties. The ones in our garden are weedy things that slowly take the shape of pokey spikes. They produce little yellow blooms that open at sunset and die off the next afternoon. Me and VB tend toward the nocturnal ourselves, and we like to sit outside in the evening. This scraggly little plant, popping open new buds every single night, makes very good company.
How can I read this and not tell the story of my mother? She was also fond of the evening primrose, and in her declining years I'd take her out to the flower bed in a wheel-chair. Mine bloomed later in the evening than Sally's do, so she'd bring a flashlight, and we'd sit in the dark and watch them open.
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The evening primrose is my favourite plant. I think there are a bunch of varieties. The ones in our garden are weedy things that slowly take the shape of pokey spikes. They produce little yellow blooms that open at sunset and die off the next afternoon. Me and VB tend toward the nocturnal ourselves, and we like to sit outside in the evening. This scraggly little plant, popping open new buds every single night, makes very good company.
- sally mckay 10-22-2007 9:02 pm
How can I read this and not tell the story of my mother? She was also fond of the evening primrose, and in her declining years I'd take her out to the flower bed in a wheel-chair. Mine bloomed later in the evening than Sally's do, so she'd bring a flashlight, and we'd sit in the dark and watch them open.
- M.Jean 10-24-2007 12:07 am
primrose past
- alex 10-24-2007 3:27 am
- sally mckay 10-24-2007 4:31 pm