For several years fellow blogger Amy Johnson Crow has been running a genealogy challenge that has seen increased popularity in the last couple years. Over on WikiTree, they have decided to pick up this challenge and issue a weekly open-ended prompt on the message boards. Each prompt is designed for members to discuss and respond with an ancestor or story that fits with that week’s prompt. In addition to answering over on WikiTree's G2G forum, I'll also be answering here in a more complete form.
The topic of “Nature” for this week’s challenge is keeping with the springtime theme from last week. I nearly had a tie for this week’s spotlight but wanted to bring back a showcase on my father. When the challenge began, I was certain I would end up repeating more ancestors and I only have one repeat nearly halfway through.
Both my father and my maternal grandmother were big influences on my love of gardening. My grandmother was known for her beautifully manicured flower beds, tea areas, and lawn. Nearly all her free time was spent on these beautiful flower beds and tea areas.
My father, on the other hand, was more of a straightforward gardener. I can recall rows of corn, carrots, green beans, peppers, and tomatoes. We also had peach and plum trees scattered around the yard and were blessed to have an old Texas pecan tree, as well. Dad would go all out on his roses, though. That was his one ornamental plant he really enjoyed and would wait all year getting ready for a new addition the following year.
Now that I’ve established a little family of my own, we’ve taken out a community garden plot and have made a point to continue this tradition. I definitely take more after my father in gardening styles with lots of veggies planted and plenty of help from little hands. We have a few flowers on the back porch, but most of our effort goes into productive gardening that will help supplement our veggie intake.
- Patricia
The topic of “Nature” for this week’s challenge is keeping with the springtime theme from last week. I nearly had a tie for this week’s spotlight but wanted to bring back a showcase on my father. When the challenge began, I was certain I would end up repeating more ancestors and I only have one repeat nearly halfway through.
Both my father and my maternal grandmother were big influences on my love of gardening. My grandmother was known for her beautifully manicured flower beds, tea areas, and lawn. Nearly all her free time was spent on these beautiful flower beds and tea areas.
My father, on the other hand, was more of a straightforward gardener. I can recall rows of corn, carrots, green beans, peppers, and tomatoes. We also had peach and plum trees scattered around the yard and were blessed to have an old Texas pecan tree, as well. Dad would go all out on his roses, though. That was his one ornamental plant he really enjoyed and would wait all year getting ready for a new addition the following year.
Now that I’ve established a little family of my own, we’ve taken out a community garden plot and have made a point to continue this tradition. I definitely take more after my father in gardening styles with lots of veggies planted and plenty of help from little hands. We have a few flowers on the back porch, but most of our effort goes into productive gardening that will help supplement our veggie intake.
- Patricia
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