This McCoy Pottery Floraline Caterpillar Belonged To My Favorite Aunt Who Gave It To My Momma Who Gave It To Me Before I Moved To Alabama. Was The Last Time I Saw My Momma It's Priceless To Me. Anyone Else Have Gardening Things With Memories?

Yes, I have a Dracaena that my gramma gave me about 25 yrs ago, a birdnest fern from my dad's funeral 10 yrs ago, and heart-leaf Philo vine from a great-grandmother's funeral in the 80's.

I also have a "real McCoy" pot but it's not sentimental. Noticed it @ a used store and got it for $1. I'll try to find it & take a pic.

How long ago did you move to AL? Where did you move from?

Several years ago
Kentucky

How nice, Duane.
Plants, flowers, and potted plants being my big hobby, no surprise that pots and plants often have special asociations for me and I have to wrestle with those at times. I can be a real jerk about not giving away a certain plant in a certain pot.

My Dad's garden spade[made by Craftsman from Sears]. When he and mom moved to a retirement place he let me take what I wanted from the garage. This the only thing I took. I clean it, sharpen it and oil it at the end of the season. I do not lend it out. To me, it's not something that can be replaced. It was my Dads and his hands are still on it.

A scented Geranium that was my mom's that was her mom's and supposedly her mom before. It always reminds me of my mom!

Brenda I also have some of Dad's tools.
And plants from Moms garden. An azalea that was a rooted branch. .a mockorange. Spirea. Tiger lilies. And more.

A sweet Lady gifted me starts of this Butterfly Ginger shortly before she passed away. It grows quick and I share it with anyone wanting some in her memory.

That's great, very pretty! White flowers are so often scented. Are those?

Very much scented yep sorta like a gardenia. A couple stems in a vase will scent a couple rooms up.

Thank you. That's great!

I like this thread. Also have my mom and dads straw gardening hats. I have them hanging in my bedroom. They were both sun sensitive to the hats were a must.

Sally
you reminded me-I have mom's day lilies. Just the plain orange flower[and I know lots of people think they're almost a weed] but they signal the growing season. As soon as they start blooming everything else soon follows. I took them from my other house when we moved-and I should have taken allot more of my plants but that's another story.

I also have what's left of granddad's goose neck hoe.
I broke one side off accidentally and the handle broke but that turned it into the best flower bed tool I've ever owned. You can tell it's age by looking at the wood in the handle and how thin it's become from sharpening over time.

Duane sometimes accidents were meant to happen..it is old and broken but you turned it back into a useful tool. It was meant to be.

This is a great thread topic, thanks for coming up with the idea Duane! So many of the things that I have both inside the house and outside in the gardens are memories of special people.

This garden plaque was in my grandmother's rose garden as far back as I can remember. The words were a favorite of hers. I have always loved it and when she and my grandfather moved to a retirement community in Florida, she gave it to me. It is even more special now that she has passed away.

Thank You Terri
A Big percentage of the stuff I grow, pots, etc. are pieces shared from friends plants. My friend who lives in Tuscaloosa @ is my assistant administrator in my FB gardening group (whom I've never met in person) mailed me a big box with the Barbados Lily, Native Zephyr Lily, and other stuff 2 years ago, that's it's first and 2nd year blooms then I moved it after blooming this year and it rebloomed.
The white plant stand had been thrown away by an elderly friend here in Alabama because it had a big hole in the column on the other side.
The red pots from a friend who had there home foreclosed on he couldn't take them and gave them to me. The one on left is medium size the one on right with the macho fern in it is twice as big. Sometimes memories are all we have left.

greatb stuff, I too keep some items with flaws when the flaws can be hidden. Or just because I like the thing so much or for sentimental reason.

"Sometimes memories are all we have left" so true.

Both of my parents passed away about this time last year. They had bought the property that adjoins mine in the late 1990s. They were so much a part of my daily life, especially when I retired in 2017 and spent most of my time being my mom's caregiver. After they passed away I had to sort through and figure out what to do with all their things that had been accumulating for their entire married life - 61 years. There was no way that I could keep everything, but I did keep what I could so there are lots of physical mementos scattered throughout my home and gardens.

Here is the St. Francis statue that I gave them many years ago that became a feature in their yard. Now it graces one of my garden areas. Actually, can't find a photo right now, so I'll go outside and get a new photo in a little bit.

The St. Francis statue