Heirloom Flowers

I love to garden.  I think it's genetic.  I just learned that I had a great aunt Evelyn who recently died at 99 years of age.  In her obituary it said she "enjoyed spending time outdoors, tending her garden"...sounds like me. I just hope I live to be 99 years old too.  I think I have pretty good genes for that too.  My great grandpa Mac died at 93 and he always had a garden growing.  So, there you have it...gardening makes you live a long life!
Going back another generation, great grampa Mac's mother was a gardener too.  In fact, I have flowers from her garden growing in my garden. 

 

One of my aunts took starts of these daylilies from great, great grandma's garden back when she was still alive and I took starts of those starts.

 

 

These may look like ordinary daylilies but they are really heirloom flowers...been in my family for generations, five generations to be exact.  Makes me happy each year when they bloom.