Aren't they beautiful!!! They are hydrangeas! Yes, I've been educated. Did not know what hydrangeas were until I received these. I love them! Apparently they can be planted outdoors as well, where they come back every year. I think this is called an annual. lol ;)
So, there is nothing bizarre about these hydrangeas. The bizarre part came maybe a week or so later when I went to water the hydrangeas. I received the plant in the kindergarten classroom. I carried the plant straight from the classroom to my car and then straight from the car to the house. I did not pass Go and I did not collect $200. (ie..I did not set the plant anywhere else between the classroom and the car and between the car and the house). ;) I was giving the plant a good soaking when I noticed a small stone frog down in the plant on the soil. "Oh wow! look at this little stone frog in the plant. I didn't notice that before!" Well, just about then that "stone" frog took a big leap out of the water I was dousing the plant with. Bizarre! HOW did that frog get into the plant. The boys insist that they did not put him there. I checked! ;) It was one of those cool frogs with the suction cup feet. Just one of those things that make you scratch your head.
That happened a couple of weeks ago. Now, this morning. I was out planting a few things in my garden. YES, I KNOW I am so very far behind on that, but it's been a very busy spring for us! I only planted a few things. Was trying to talk myself into just not doing a garden this year because I am just so far behind on it, but I just HAD to plant a few things! I planted some tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, yellow squash...that's it. So, I bought one cherry tomato plant that I thought I could make three plants out of. It had three hardy stalks. It came in one of those cardboard containers. The kind that are designed to plant the container and all. Kind of like this....
The one I had was a bit bigger than these appear here. Anyway, so I soaked it really well so that the plant would come out nice and easy for me because as I said, I wanted to separate them. I was holding one hand under the pot and had my other hand on the plant trying to separate it and free it from the pot. Then my hand on the bottom of the pot noticed movement inside the pot! This startled me causing me to drop the pot on the ground. As the plant hit the ground the pot and dirt splattered open exposing the cause of the movement in the pot. You guessed it...a TOAD! A good sized TOAD buried inside the dirt of this pot, which I purchased at walmart a week ago!!
Ok, now that is BIZARRE!!!!
Two weird frog/toad stories in 2 weeks time....
BIZARRE!!!!
Love, Wendy
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Hydrangeas are one of my favorites! And it will get bigger and bigger each year too, basically a large bush. They can be finicky at first if they don't like your soil, but eventually they'll settle in. Mine has blue flowers if I have an acidic enough soil, otherwise they are pink. Mine did not flower for 5 years and then last summer finally it flowered like crazy and is flowering again this year. So it wasn't happy with me for 5 years. Ha! OH, and it's not an annual, it's a perennial acutally! I know, it's confusing... but the annuals are the ones you have to plant every year and the perennials are the ones that come up year after year.
I love the frog/toad stories! Crazy! :)
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