New Flowers in the Garden

Dillon and stopped into Walmart yesterday after his eye appointment and as I pulled into the parking lot he asked me "Are we going to go look at the flowers?" Caught off guard by the question, I said sure, we could go look at the flowers. As we were browsing the flowers, Dillon found three plants that he insisted must be added to our flowerbeds. One was Creeping Phlox - "Amazing Grace" then he insisted we needed blue added to the garden, so he picked out Lithodora - "Grace Ward", some blue Lobelia and a few Marigolds.

When we were finished shopping we were waiting in line to check out. The lady behind us observed Dillon placing the items from our cart onto the conveyer and he was carefully moving the plants. She made the comment "Ladies and their flowers." and he looked back at her and nodded, catching the comment, I looked back at her and as Dillon was looking down, carefully continuing his cart unloading, I pointed my finger toward Dillon and mouthed "Their his plants." She said "oh!" with a laughter in her voice and asked Dillon if he liked gardening. He said "yeah, I guess" and she said, "You did an nice job picking out those flowers" He looked at her perplexed and said "These aren't mine their my moms!" I had to giggle.

As we walked back to the car, Dillon asked me "Why did that lady think those were my flowers?" I told him I had told her that you had picked them out so they were his. "Oh, No those are your plants!" he insisted and I told him. "It doesn't matter what you say, I am always going to remember that those plants as yours. Ones you insisted needed to be added to the garden. Gee, Dillon you even brought up that we had to go look at the flowers today and then was determined to have the ones you picked out! So like it or not, those are your flowers." He protested a while... He is currently quite disappointed in my belief that those are his flowers. Despite that he made no protest in helping me plant those new additions. So, I think as time goes by he'll enjoy his contribution to the flowerbed... I know I will.

It has been a late year for blooms, but I have a few more flowerbed photos . - click here to see!