Have you ever been to a plant nursery and fallen in love with the most
pathetic, ridiculous looking flower there? Well, mom and I did today. We
were out, running a few errands, and we stopped at Agway for the plant
nursery. While checking the clearance plants, under the tent, we noticed
a scraggly, half dried out, wilted, and very tall, flower. He was two
feet taller than any other of his kind. We picked him up and put him on
the wagon, calling him “Geek”. After getting the flowers that we wanted
from under the clearance tent, mom went to search for some grapes to
grow along her pergola. It wasn’t long before mom found her grapes. Of
course, she picked out the most handsome looking of them all. They were
tall, deep green, very robust, and, of course, full priced. Mom set the
grapes on the cart next to “Geek”, not realizing that her decision was
poor, and could have been fatal to innocent “Geek”.
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Mom and I were at the checkout paying for our plants. Everything was
fine and well. We were talking about how Geek was finally going to have a
decent home in our gardens. We would make him feel special. But when
mom reached down to take the grapes off of the wagon, she yelled out
“Annie! Quick, save Geek!” While we weren’t paying attention to the
plants, the grapes decided to gang up on Geek. Of course, Geek was just
too little to fight back…the Grapes were strangling him. They probably
said to him “Oh, it’s you again. I thought you got shipped to the
clearance tent, Geek! Ha-ha-ha!” and then pounced upon him. Their vines
were all tangled around Geek’s stem. I, of course, rescued Geek by
untangling Grapes arms from him. I set him up on the counter, but Geek
was too weak from his tragic experience with those nasty, bully grapes.
His little stem was bent over and he was lying against his friend, who
was also a geek. When mom, Geek, and I got to the car, we got some
medical tape from the trunk and bandaged him up the best we could. Geek
rode in the front seat with me so that he wouldn’t break anymore. I
believe that made him feel special. He had air-conditioning in the
front, while the other plants, including those bully grapes, had to sit
in the hot trunk.
When we got home, we immediately brought Geek to the garden, dug a deep
hole in the earth, planted him nicely, and gave him a drink of cold
water. He is now a happy little Geek in the garden, soon to be amongst
many of his friends from the clearance tent. We hope that Geek will have
a many good months in that dirt, and Lord willing, the frost will be
late this year.
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“For lo, the winter
is gone, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time
of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard on our land. The
fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a
good smell…”
Song of Solomon 2:11 – 13
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