My father sent me a shoebox filled with black walnuts from his house in Indiana. I planted several at my house the day my firstborn came home from the hospital. One thrived, growing to 50 feet, at least. I sent a shoebox of walnuts from that tree to my son when *his* son was born.

Hey Stephany, nice to finally "meet" you. Please share more of your experiences with us....we appreciate it. Great tour Jim!

Hello Stephanie - nice to finally see your face - hope to see you more in future videos. My favorite heirloom plant I have are some iris that I inherited from my mom. I remember them from my childhood home, she gave me a few (that turned into many) when I purchased my own home, and now I moved to a new home and brought them along with me. When my mom passed, I found a picture of my grandmother's garden in Michigan (from about 1950, maybe earlier) and low & behold there were the same iris in that beautiful garden. So I am assuming my grandmother passed them to my mom, my mom passed them to me and one day I will pass them to my daughter. They are my treasures for sure.

So lovely to meet Stephany ❤️ my Dad’s no longer with us but I still have a lilac bush which got too big for his garden so he dug it up, drove it round and planted it for me, always makes me think of him ❤️

I don’t have plants from my grandmother because she passed on when I was 16. I do have rocks from her rock garden. They where in my mom’s rock garden but then she gave them to me. I love them with all my heart. Every time I see them I think of her.

I have a Peony that my Dad transplanted from my grandmother's house in VA in 1972 when she died. When my Dad died in 2015 I transplanted it from his house in Greensboro to mine. ❤️

Nice to meet you, Stephany! When I moved into my house 10 years ago, there were some blueberry bushes in the yard that hadn’t been cared for and were as tall as trees with hardly any berries. Through the years we have pruned them, and now they’re bush-sized, producing lots of berries, and a real treat in summer. When I renovated the kitchen behind the countertops I found a hand-written recipe card for blueberry muffins from the 1970s/1980s, and photos of the former owner (who has since passed away.) I wish I could share with her that the next generations of children come over and pick blueberries from her plant!

Yes it's cool to see in front of the camera the camera person we hear mentioned in Jim's videos. I lost my avid-gardener mother last year in March and before we sold her house I dug rose campion, iris, hosta, daffodils, columbine, ginger lily, true geranium and my favorite, confederate rose, to put 15 houses to the right of hers in my garden. When they bloomed, and as these grow, my heart swells with emotion, and grief, and joy, and love for her and for the garden..

Awesome to meet Stephanie, love the hostas from her Dad. For me, the humble Tiger Lily reminds me of my grandmother - born in 1895, gone these 40 years, but come June here in New York the Tiger Lily brings me into her wonderful garden once again.

We have an oak tree that my dad brought us, had volunteered in a pot and he wanted us to have it (he couldn’t throw anything away). He promised my then 5 year old son 25cents per bucket of water to keep it hydrated. My dad recently passed away, my son is now 24, and the tree is easily 40 ft tall😊

I have a red maple and some beautiful double flowered daffodils from my grandparents' garden is MA before they moved down here. Both have passed now so they're really special to me. I also planted a bunch of bare root daylilies this year in honor of my grandma because they remind me of her, and I have a couple baby redbud trees now in honor of my uncle who loved them. I love having stuff in the garden that reminds me of my loved ones.

Nice to meet you Stephany and I enjoyed hearing about your heritage plants. When my husband and I were married 35 years ago my elderly grandmother gave me many plants and cuttings from plants. Along the way my mother did the same. Both have passed now, but their memory lives on and when I see or care for those plants. They are my most cherished!

Hi Stephanie! Come back often!!! I have many sentimental plants a they make me smile when I see them. I totally agree!

Nice to meet you Stephany. I do have a very special memorabilia plant I cherish. It's a Grape Hyacinth patch that was given to me by my Grandma. The bulbs came from her garden in Red Deer, Alberta 🇨🇦 The original bulbs came from my Great Grandparents garden in Essex, 🇬🇧

I have my grandmother’s day lilies from Tennessee that she sat in a chair (to boss me 😂) on the porch and told me how to divide and take. She wrapped them in newspaper and they have moved with me from Georgia to Alabama. I call her grandmama. ♥️

Hi Stephanie. Yes I have in my childhood home (parents have passed) of 63 yrs my Moms Peonies and Lilacs that started from her mother. I’m taking divisions from there to our new home this summer. The plants from our parents do hold precious memories for all of us.

I dug a few buckets of tiger lilies, purple iris and hosta from my grandparents' home before the house was torn down. The irises bloom every year the week of my birthday and I thank my Granny for sending me flowers on my special day.

I have hens and chicks that was from my grandfather's yard that he had planted in an old shoe.

The Lily of the Valley patch in my yard has been passed down from my grandma’s garden. Every spring when they bloom I think of her and her country garden😊

I have my moms pink calla lilies that sent blooms up on Mother’s Day. We lost her in October so it was the first year without her 💔

Hi Stephanie! I live in my deceased parents home of 42 years. I have hostas, a purple iris with dark foliage that my sister gave my mom years ago that keeps returning. Thrift that has been divided a placed in all my landscape before this one. I even have some hybrid tomato seeds that my dad grew! It give me a sweet reminder of my dear parents! Let’s see more of you on Jim’s videos!

My elderly neighbor has plants that she she removed from her Mother’s home after her Mother passed. She has given me cuttings from them. My favorite from her are Peonies. My birthday is in April, on Earth Day, so I am gifted a lot of plants that can be popped right into the garden. Each gifted plant is a reminder of the person who was thoughtful enough to think of me. 💕

I'm one of those people who gets an emotional attachment to most all my plants. I've gotten them from others or they remind me of a time in my life. I've got 17 year old Hellebore from a special dog's garden. I'm gifting one of my huge Elegans to a dear friend this week, digging the 15 gallon hole is up to her 😃 And then there's the stuff planted on pet graves or to commemorate the loss of friends & family. I guess they're ALL special to me. Good to see your face Stephanie!

Like the old Sears commercial ….the softer side of Jim …I was able to get a few things from my moms garden before she passed away ….Rosemary, day Lilly’s, mint, agapanthas, …..I still have peace Lilly’s from both my dads and moms funeral plants 😭…..I have a bluebird house with 5 hatchlings rt now ….nice to meet you.

Hi Stephanie! It’s nice to meet you and learn about the plants that have sentimental value to you. I grew up in an apartment with no outdoor garden space but my mom always and still has geraniums growing in the sunny kitchen windowsill. I have a home with a garden now and grow annual geraniums on a window basket. Mom loves them!

I have my Mom's African violets. She is in a nursing home. I have since added to the collection and have become addicted to them. Haha also for the outside, I have a Grancy Grey Beard planted in honor of my Dad. He didn't garden but every time we'd pass one he'd say, "look at that Grand Daddy Greybeard". It reminds me of him.❤️

Fun to meet you, Stephany, in the video! Thanks for joining and thanks for the tour, Jim. Your hostas are beautiful. Ours start off nice but get tattered and chewed on by slugs pretty quickly. PNW 8b.

Me and my sister recently purchased my grandmother's home. We have moved several of her roses after cutting down some 40 year old pecan trees that were threatening the house. They really did well in the new spot. I love my granny's roses, hydrangeas and hostas. Dahlias were her favorite though, and I am trying my luck with them this year. If my memory serves me, granny had a hard time growing them and they became an ongoing project for her.

Lovely to meet Stephanie 😊 my dad is 82 and we have a rose from his grandparents home 😊

Aloha Stephany! Heritage plants are a lovely sentiment. I don’t have any, but I will now try to grow something extra special that my niece will enjoy having down the road. 🌺

Nice to meet Stephanie. I have two heritage plants in my garden I would like to mention. The first is a bearded iris that came from my brother's house. The previous owner on his own home brought them from her mother's garden. I figure the original parent iris is at least 70 years old. The second heritage plant is my aunt's peony. She passed away last year and I transplanted them late winter and to my surprise, I have flower buds this spring. Thanks for the great videos.

How special to have that Hosta of your dad's! I have Four O'clocks that were given to me by a sweet friend who passed away 20 years ago. Every spring when they come up, it's like she's telling me hello. 😊 🌼

Nice to meet Stephany, I have irises that go back to my great grandma. I got my "start" in high school when I helped my great aunt separate hers. Her start came from her mother, so I consider them my great grandma's irises and Aunt Nezzie's irises. I have moved some with me twice - and mine need to separated again. I also have a rain tree another great-aunt gave my grandma back in the 80s when we were visiting Marietta. My aunt hid it in the trunk because my mom didn't want to take it. Long story short, it got huge over the years. I dug up a volunteer and brought it to this house with me in 2017.

Hi Stephany!! Nice to meet you.

I have a purple Siberian Iris that came from my grandmothers house. I take some with me, and leave some, everywhere I have lived. I always plant a few Marigolds, because she liked them, and their smell is the first thing I remember about gardening with her when she had me help her dead-head.

I garden in Zone 8b and was able to rescue my grandfather’s rose bush. It was very neglected, but it’s now a beautiful red rose bush that’s over 50 years old. My Papa’s Rose is very special to me. 😀

Hi Stephany! Yes, I have several plants that I originally started from cuttings or seeds from my Dad's garden as well. One is a beautiful red tropical hibiscus that is very different from the hybrids you see today. I grew it from cuttings at the house I had for 30 years and then took cuttings with me across the country to my new home and am growing it as a houseplant here in the Seattle area. There was also a very unusually colored Madagascar periwinkle that was growing wild at my Dad's house (as a weed really) and I dug up seedlings and started them at my house many years ago. Again, I collected seeds before I sold my home and am growing it here in a rock garden at my new home. I love having plants that remind me of my mom and dad and my time living in Florida. I also grow Four O'Clocks because they were the first flowers I grew as a child in Florida. Violet, my next door neighbor growing up, was the person who taught me how to garden and gave me those first seeds. My mom really wasn't a gardener, so it was very kind of Violet to take the time to teach me. I always think of Violet when I'm planting Four O'Clocks!

Hi Stephanie! So nice to meet you! My love of gardening came from my dear Mother. She is in heaven now but I have peonies and a yard of Annabelle’s that were started from hers! Such a blessing!

It was very sweet of you to share your plants passed on from your Dad ❤️ My favorite plants are a redbud from a birthday present and a tea rose for a wedding anniversary gift from my late husband. I love my gardens and it’s comforting to have those extra special pieces that remind us of our loved ones.

Oh It was wonderful to meet Stephany !🌷💚🙃

Oh, I love seeing Stephany join in the video portions now! Awesome! I have several plants that I have "carried" with me from different homes over the past 20+ years. One very special flower is an iris from my family's old home place in Texas. The iris dates back to the 1920s when the old home was first built. I'm blessed with what I call a "friendship garden"; many plants that have been gifted to me over the years from dear friends. I can tell you where each plant came from and why it means something to me. Odd?? Perhaps, but I think there might be a few others out here that share the same feelings about their friends and the plants they received from them.

Nice to meet Stephany! I’m a little late to comment here but wanted to share that this year I’m planting three Ali Oop dahlias in my garden in memory of my sister, who passed many years ago. Her nickname was Ali, and I know she would love the big red flowers. It’s a nice way to honor someone who’s loved and missed. Thanks for asking. ❤️

Wow, what’s up Stephany? I get my love of plants from my Mom. I have Amaryllis from her house that have moved with me. My sisters get a pic each Mothers Day and we all think of Mama. Love that they multiply and I thin out beds and give to family. Tell Jim not to hog the camera, you’re a natural.

I love your videos. I learn something every time I watch one. I have daylilies from my grandmother, ferns from my mother and phlox, mondo grass, ferns and other plants from my older sister. I also have a pot my grandmother brought me the first time she came to visit me at my first home about 48 years ago. Last year I divided it and gave a start to all 4 of my brothers and sisters.. I love pass along plants, they are so special.

Last year I went and dug up shampoo ginger out of my grandparents yard before their house was sold. My mom says she remembers it being there since the 70s. I was so excited to see them start waking up the other day. So glad they survived winter.

Hey Stephany! This isn’t a plant, but I do have a wrought iron swing that my beautiful friend gave to me before she lost her battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. She loved every kind of gardening and really helped to get my fire burning for it. I love to sit on my swing and look out over the landscaping and my big food garden, and keep dreaming and doing. I know she would be proud.

Hi, yes I love what I call my memory plants. I have an alocasia that comes from a parent plant that would be over 80 yrs old and was from my father’s mothers garden. Also a maiden hair fern that is again the parent plant would be over 70 years old, from my mother’s mother. Special plants like yours. 🇦🇺cheers Bronwyn

Loved meeting Stephany! I have hydrangeas (old fashioned blue ones) and a lilac bush that are descendants from my grandparents' plants. Being as I'm now 70 and had them 40+ years they come from many, many years ago! I enjoyed seeing the hosta in your garden. So many varieties to love. I'm now having issues with HVX in my Sum and Substance and another variety of hosta that I've had for many, many, many years. Sadly I'll be destroying these to prevent the spread.

Nice to meet you Stephanie and I am also sentimental about certain plants. I have an autumn joy sedum from a dear friend who passed a few years ago. She was my garden mentor and I’ve shared that sedum with others. It’s important to have things in your garden from other gardeners I believe.

Heirloom plants are such a neat concept! I wish that I had gotten some plants from my grandmothers garden before she passed, the new owners said they wanted to keep up with her garden, but ripped out all the plants 3 years later. I wish that I had taken cuttings or divisions from her garden to remember her.

Nice to see you, Stephanie!! I have a peony from my friends Grandma and some garden animals that were in my Grandma's garden.

Thanks for saying hi Stephany! I’m a first gen gardener but I love the idea that you have a plant from a parent - very sweet.

I have several plants which I got from my grandmother decades ago. My favorite is her coral bells. They thrive in full sun. I started with one and there are over 30 of them, many included in a 20 foot border in my side garden.

We have hydrangeas that were rooted from my husband’s grandmother’s. They are absolutely gorgeous!

Loved the tour…thank you. Yes, I have Hostas and a Crape Myrtle that my dear late husband and I planted together. They traveled with me when relocating. Always a special memory with these plants. 🙂

I have a beautiful claret colored iris that is special to me. When my youngest son and daughter-in-law bought their first house they had a very sweet neighbor, Tommie. I admired her beautiful iris when I first met her and a few months later she divided them and sent me some. Fast forward a few years...guys working on her driveway scooped them all up and threw them in the dumpster while Tommie was at work. She was heartbroken as her late husband had given them to her decades before. Because she had shared them so generously with me, I was able to give her some back. She was thrilled to have them. Tommie has passed on now, but I remember her fondly when those iris bloom. I call them "Tommie's Claret"

Hi Stephany. Your story about the hosta touched me. I lost my mom a little over a year ago. We shared a love of gardening. I took cuttings from some of her hydrangeas which she loved and some of her bulbs. Now I have a little reminder of her in my new garden. Thanks for sharing.

I treasure a lilac start from a bush in my deceased paternal grandparents’ yard. 🤞that I get flowers next spring. From my mom, in addition to a general obsession with coral bells and hostas, I have actual hostas: June, Mouse Ears and what she calls “the old-fashioned hosta.” We have purple/yellow bearded iris from one my husband’s uncles. Then there are the plants from friends… so many gifts! By the way, your garden makes me feel better about my lack of “drifts” of single plants. Jim calls himself a “collector” and that’s me, too!!

My favorite heritage plant we grew up calling, "bluebells of Scotland"; a native shade bulb Scilla to Great Britain. My Aunt who just passed gave me some bulbs 30 years ago and now I have great drifts of them in the landscape. Few bulbs thrive in full shade. They bloom with the azaleas.

Hi Stephanie, so nice to see you on front of the camera. Shares your dad story, thank you, I love it. I love what you guys are doing, I learned so much about plants and lives. Thank you Jim putnam.

Nice to see and hear more from Stephany. To your question, we brought Rue plants from our garden in Brooklyn, NY where we lived for over 40 yrs. We have over a dozen in our new garden; they are the host plant for Black and Giant Swallowtails and a great reminder of our old neighborhood and neighbors.

Hi Stephany It’s wonderful to meet you and what’s special to you 🥰 My Dad who’s no longer with us loved his California Lilac and even though I don’t have that plant, I went out and bought one as a reminder of him 💕 Excellent tour Jim 🥰

Nice to see Stephany! I have some Ruby Hart rhododendrons in my garden that were propogated for our family. My mom was a gardener who died much too soon, and Ruby Harts were some of her favorite rhodies. They came with me when we moved from Oregon to Washington State and then when we moved from our original house to our current home.

So happy to see Stephany. Would be nice to see more of her. My special plant is at my sister’s house and is an Easter Lily I gave to my mom and she later planted in the garden. Mom is gone now but the Lily is spreading and reminds us of her every spring.

I was given peony plants that originally came from Dr. Upjohn the inventor of the friable aspirin. The peonies are over 100 yrs. old. I also have some tulips my father-in-law planted 46 yrs. ago. Thank you for the wonderful informative tours. We really need them at this time in most of our lives.

Lovely to meet you Stephany. I am very lucky to have several plants from my Grandparents garden which are now treasures in mine. One of our family favourites is his white Longiflorum lily which flowers just in time for Christmas here in New Zealand. Granddad's lilies are as synonymous with our Christmas day as raspberries and Pavlova.

I do have some plants that I have inherited Stephany, and they are very special to me. They are not landscape plants but houseplants. It was very nice to see you on the video. Nice to "meet" you.

Hi Stephany it's nice to hear from you - your videography has been fantastic! I'm a sentimental/heirloom kind of gardener, and my fav plants are ones that come from family and friends. I have irises, flags, lilac, forsythia, oxalis, and creeping dianthus that came from ones my great grandmother planted! And I love all the ones that come from my friends, and I think of them when I see them. I also enjoy sharing plants with others - my rudbeckia is all over town! I'm loving reading everyone's stories - great idea to ask us to share this 🌺

Hi Stephanie! My daddy gave me bluebonnet seed from my grandma’s yard. I planted them about three years ago and they have done great in my flower beds. Daddy died three years ago and the bluebonnets always remind me of watching him collect seed for me. 💚

Well, how nice to finally see you! Hope for more! I’m 75 and live in my husbands family farmhouse. I have iris, peonies, thrift, daffodils, ole timey wild petunias and a couple of plants with no names that pop up each year as well as begonias and chiminea ( sp?) l keep from the cold and put pots out each summer. I also have azaleas from my sisters cuttings, beautiful bearded iris from a 90+ church friend. I love all the old plants. Love all the shows. Dr A is a hoot!!

Passing down the love of gardening to the next generation is so important. Stephany I love that you honor your Dad by caring for some of his plants❤️Surprisingly none of my family predecessors were into gardening that I know of. I am though, and all of my kids, now adults, all love to garden and share plants! One of my most special plants is a Japanese Maple my son planted for me on Mothers Day a few years ago. I love to watch it grow😊

Hi Stephany, nice to meet you. I have some peonies that were planted by my daughter who passed away 5 years ago, she also planted some astilbes which bring me much joy every season.

My gardens are a walk down memory lane. I have out of my Mom's garden: Azaleas, Lilacs, Lenten Roses, Mock Orange, Iris, Snow ball bush, and an over 20 yr old orchid-not in the landscape but an indoor plant. She had a green thumb and started all these plants from her own so I could have them at my gardens in my newly built home. She passed 22 years ago and I still miss her but my flowers always remind me of her. I so enjoy your channel because of its no nonsense approach to gardening and that you give your location, zone, and the time of year you are filming.

My dad and mom were avid gardeners, so when they both passed in the 90's, one of my eldest sisters dug up many of their Day Lily, Iris and Hosta before selling the house. Fastforward to 2 years ago, I bought my own house and with a lot of work, have begun to have my own garden. My sister divided and gave me a share of all of my mom and dads flowers and they have all done so beautifully. I also got several cuttings off of 5 Camelias from my nephews farm, only one survived. I have no idea which one it is but it is happy and growing. I look forward to seeing it bloom.

I have a couple bleeding hearts and iris as well as a peony from my mom’s yard and I love that they remind me of her!

Nice to meet you Stephany! Sansevieria or Snake plant that was my grandmother’s also some lilies and hosta that were hers.

I just wanted to comment that Stephany seems like the sweetest person! Loved the video

Hey there Stephany. We have day lilies from my husband’s grandmother and a beautiful long leaf gardenia from my mother’s garden. Nice to meet you from zone 8-b Gulf Coast Alabama.

Hello. I am just south of Raleigh and am in the beginning process of transforming a natural area in our front yard to include more pollinators. Your channel has been a great wealth of inspiration and information. An heirloom plant that is special to me is the common red amaryllis. My parents always had them in their yard when I was growing up, and I always thought they were beautiful. When my husband and I purchased the house we're in now, my mom gifted me several bulbs. I found out when she gifted them to me, that the bulbs she started with originally, had come from my great grandmothers yard. I have these planted up by the steps of my front door and am always very excited when they make their appearance each year.

Hi Stephany! When my mother in law passed away in 1999, my sister-in-law dug up some of her Lily of the Valley plants and planted them around the base of our flowering cherry tree. I wasn’t interested in gardening at that time, but every spring they return and bloom beautifully!! They remind me of her every time!! Now, I love gardening and the lily of the valley are amongst my favorites ❤️❤️

I have a hellebore and blue delphinium from my Mum’s garden, had them for 30+ years so both really old varieties

Hey Stephanie! Well when I was 7 in the second grade Ms. Sawyer gave me a paper sack that had bearded iris in it. Fifty six years later I still have them. I also have some native flowers that my grandma Todd had. I kept the seed in my freezer for 40 years and still have flowers every year that come back from seed started by those. I also have some crepe myrtles from my mother she had planted at her new home in 1973 that a lady that was in her 80's at the time had given her. Thanks for the memories!

Hi Stephanie!! Good camera work! Jim as always wonderful!

Hello Stephanie. We have heard your name occasionally, and it's nice to see your face. Yes, I have several family (heritage) plants from my husband's family. We are currently in the process of transplanting a Rose of Sharon from my mother-in-love's yard to our yard. This plant started in her family sometime in the 1960's, in upstate Pennsylvania. (Several members of the family also have "off spring" of the original RoS.) My MIL is now 90 and living in West Texas. My husband and I want to move to it our place to continue those memories. :) Fingers crossed that the plant lives through the transplant. It's been at her house since sometime in the late 80's!

I have several plants (peonies, forsythia, spirea, lilacs) that were from my mom and one special rose from my paternal grandmother, grandma died 100 years ago this month. I had a hosta elegans that I bought at the grocery stores spring plant sale that I loved and shared with my sisters. It was massive, the deer also loved it and destroyed mine as well as my August lily. Heritage plants have a special place in my heart and bring sweet memories of childhood home.

How is Stephanie related to you? This is my first time hearing and seeing her. She seem to be very knowledgeable in the garden. Love to see the changes in your garden as the season changes.

Hi Stephany! Plants that have special attachments are the best! We make sure they are well tended to sustain those precious memories. I have purple iris from my Moms garden. She would grind the leaves from her yard and bag them up for me to use as mulch in my new home (30+ yrs ago). Inadvertently a small piece of iris came along in the leaves and surprisingly took hold without being planted! They are now sprinkled throughout my gardens and I look forward to them every year. She also gave me some of her peonies that are still going strong. Thanks for sharing your stories and asking about ours.

I have so many heirloom plants in my garden! I started collecting plants from friends and family as a cheap way to get my garden started. But as my garden has gotten more mature, it's been amazingly special to see these plants grow. Of them all, two of my favorites: a gardenia that was propagated from my mom's garden and is one of her favorite shrubs, and a Nikko Blue hydrangea that was gifted in memory of a family member who died last year.

Hi Stephany, nice to meet you from Chicago :) I have Larkspur seeds that I originally collected and planted as a 12 year old kid in 1970 from my Grandma's garden and have collected seed from that original batch every year. Gosh 52 years now, hadn't thought about that. :)

Hey, Stephanie from south Alabama. I have several plants in my landscape that are from my parents. My dad passed away last year and I totally understand the sentimental value the plants bring. I really enjoy watching Jim's videos, been a big fan for years and enjoyed finally seeing your face today.

Hi, Stephany! I have a few gardening tales…My paternal grandmother taught me about gardening very early in life, but I don’t have any specimens from her gardens because I have moved to many different zones since then. My parents were city folk and had little interest in gardening. As I moved about the country, I have had more and more extensive gardens, and I remember often what my grandmother taught me! First, out of graduate school in New Jersey, then when I took a new job in Texas. I have been here in North Carolina since 1986, and now when I move to a new house, many of my plants come with me! I am particularly attached to my gorgeous camellias!

Planted at 5 different homes since the late Eighties, and I still have some of the species purple Siberian iris that my folks divided and shared with me back then and a golden tiara hosta they gifted me.

So nice to me you, Stephanie! Kudos on the great camera work you do! I have a sentimental connection to Sweet Betsy, aka Carolina Allspice. While not a beautiful shrub, my grandma had it growing next to her front porch and I can remember the sweet scent wafting through her windows on hot summer days. I sure hope my kids will harvest memories from my garden when I’m gone. 💚

I had some bleeding heart in our front yard. It would bloom fairly well, but it died back once the weather got hot each summer. I realized some years later that it grows better in the shade. I moved the struggling plants to the north side of the house. They are now gorgeous and huge each year.

I have a bird of paradise from my Mom's house. I live along the Mendocino coast in California and it really isn't warm enough for it so it stays in the greenhouse. It is out growing that space though so I might try a piece of it in a protected South spot.

Loved seeing you Stephany!!! Great story about your Dad’s Hastas. 💕🪴 You & Jim are amazing.

Hi Stephanie!!!!!! Nice to meet you!!! Hope to see more of you in the videos!!!👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽👋🏽

I have a Lilly from my Grandma's garden. It means the world to me and I miss her so very much. It's nice to see a part of her in my garden.

I have Irises and Ginger from my parents, both gone now but I love to share them with neighbors.

Hi Stephanie, so great to finally see you in front of the camera! I have yellow Calla Lilies that I received when my mom passed 13 years ago. My husband’s parents have some in their yard too. They are on both sides of our steps going in the front door. I love seeing them every year and they are just starting to come up again.