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[csziggy]

4. My "pass me down" plants are the easy to grow ones

When we bought this farm in 1978 I found one small clump of paper whites behind the old house. I've been dividing them and transplanting them every since and now have enough to go all the way around our new house. Last month my husband dug some of them up and took to his mother's house to put in a neglected raised bed.

About twenty years ago my Mom gave me one pot of African iris. Those have done better than the paper whites and they are around the house and down the driveway. Some of those went to MIL's, too.

Mom also gave me some Crocosmia which have done well, but they no longer bloom where I planted them - the sycamores now shade them too much. But over the last winter I liked the foliage and how green it stayed even when we had severe weather. So this spring we dug up a lot of them to transplant around the new house and took some to MIL's, too.