Miracle on Timber Ridge Drive

Could it be? Am I dreaming? Is this really happening? Is it a miracle right here in my own backyard? To answer my questions...yes, no, unbelievably yes, hallelujah yes!! I went out to my flower bed the other day and had the best surprise in the whole wide world awaiting me back there. My hydrangea had one teeny-tiny bloom on it. Hooray!! I have a love/hate relationship with this plant. I planted it a little less than 2 years ago. The first summer, it was very small, since I had just bought it and planted it straight from the store and of course, it died during the winter. It was pathetic, let me tell you. I was very sad the day that I finally decided to just chop it down to the roots, because I really thought it was dead. Well, this spring, I was surprised to see that it started to sprout and come back. I thought, great, I didn't kill it. Well...it did come back and it came back as one massive, giant, super-plant!! Summer came, as well as most hydrangea blooming season. No blooms. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. I had given up, deciding that I had ruined this poor plants ability to produce blooms due to my whack job on it the winter before. So you can imagine how happy I was to walk out and find that little bloom trying to peek through. I did a little happy dance and had to run to tell Joseph. (Note: he was not impressed, nor did he really care) So I am very happy that my little plant-baby decided to let me get a glimpse at the awesomeness that is a hydrangea bloom.

SIDE NOTE AND STORY: Speaking of this plant, I have a quick story. I have been upset over my hydrangea plant all season long because it never bloomed. Well, one day I go home to my parents house and I look over behind my mother's gardenia bush. There is a pot up against the wall, with a plant in it. And of course it was a hydrangea plant that someone had given her probably 3 years ago. It had never been planted. Its roots where coming out of the bottom of the pot to the dirt below. It had never been watered. It had never been given any attention. It was completely abandoned. And when I got there that day, it had the most beautiful blooms on it. Needless to say, I was not happy because I had given my plant a lot of TLC and mother gave her none and it was beautiful. Go figure!!