Great-grandmother's Bloom Day

 Northern gardeners who participate in the monthly display of what's growing in our gardens, known as Garden Bloggers Bloom Day, are forced to focus on our indoor pots of bulbs and flowering house plants at this season. Because of the vast array of horticultural choices in today's world, we tend to think that we are on the cutting edge of winter gardening. But up here in Wisconsin, it's nothing new — as you can see from this photograph of Mark's great-grandmother, poised on the doorstep of her log house with a pot of blooming bulbs in 1925.

 

Comments

[Martha B.]

Linda-

What a great photo. I'm curious...what is the history of the log cabin? Is it still standing?

[Les]

That photo is a treasure.

[Altoon]

What an amazing photo; and to think that your family were pioneers.

I remember my grandmother's house being full of gardenia plants, always blooming with that amazing scent. When I tried to grow them, I was a complete flop; every bud dropped.

[Lisa at Greenbow]

That photo is precious. GG was way ahead of her time. Or are we just way behind the times??

[LINDA from EACH LITTLE WORLD]

Thanks for all your comments. Mark says that the cabin was her "winter home." Her husband ran a lumber camp during the winter and every time they moved the camp, the men would build her a new log cabin at the site of the new camp. She had a more typical home during the summer. But, of course, it's the winter that's the difficult season to get through!

[Janet]

This is really an extraordinary photograph. I love the contrast between the rough-hewn logs and the delicate bulbs.