All season -- this being my first season growing petunias -- I've been struck by how much new petunia blossoms and old petunia blossoms look alike. In fact, when I started deadheading the flowers, more than a few times I tugged on new blossoms thinking they were spent. Fortunately, I've become more discerning over time and haven't made that mistake for awhile now.

Always one to see the profound in the ordinary, I'm reminded that as human beings we are similar. Though you can't mistake young people for old, we share similarities at the beginning and near the end of life. We're delicate and vulnerable, a little wrinkly, either not fully formed or slowly deteriorating. In the garden, as in life, beginnings and endings create the eternal cycle of living.

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Posted by Beth Reblogged by Old Roses to petunias on 2007-08-17, 06:18:06

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