Planting Flowers

May 15, 1936  John one-wayed and sowed cane.  Mary and I hoed.  Mama planted flowers outside.

Mennonite women traditionally planted many flowers around their houses, and Margaret was no exception.  She planted many geraniums, and in fall she would cut slips from them and take them inside to start new plants.  Then in spring she would plant them outside.  She also planted many flower from seed on the yard.  In later years, she planted beautiful dahlias on the east side of the house.

When women went visiting and saw a plant that they did not have, they would cut a slip from it and grow it for themselves.

Flower garden in front of a traditional Mennonite house-barn at the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Man.