Periodic Shows
I like periodic flowers. The ones that show up just for the briefest of moments. The ones you see only if you're looking. For instance, in the dead grass of the back lots, I now have rain lilies, which as the name suggests means they come up after a rain. I also have schoolhouse flowers that are now blooming in their September, welcome back to school display. Lovely blooms in both cases.
I’ve cultivated the schoolhouse flowers, the rain lilies are nature's own. The former have been with us through multiple houses, although I suspect we’re probably several generations on from the original flowers which we got from one of my late wife’s Louisiana relatives somewhere down the line, along with a selection of irises.
When we lived on the Gulf Coast we had azaleas, which only bloomed for two weeks in the spring, but they put on quite a show and were well worth the wait in my humble opinion, although opinions differ. We went back to visit an old house we owned and realized the new owners had pulled up the azaleas. Probably not people we’d care to know, and maybe that’s how we should pick our friends, by the plants they love. It might seem arbitrary, but it’s probably a good first step.