In my personal life these days it seems like there’s a good and bad side to almost everything I’m doing. I know at some point I heard a saying about planting flowers for someone else to enjoy. That’s taken on a much deeper meaning for me this week as I planted my flowers.
This week I’ve been finishing up the last minute details of my remodel and getting ready for an open house. One of those details is planting my spring flowers and replacing what the Arizona frost killed last month.
Normally planting flowers is a very exciting time for me that I look forward to through the potential freeze season because I love to plant & I love my yard full of color. But this year is bittersweet because my Scottsdale, AZ home is for sale. Which is also a good thing and a bad thing. The good part is I’m finally moving to Maui-yeah!!! The bad part is I’m doing it while I’m getting a divorce. But then again, the divorce is really a good thing. After almost 17 years we’re parting on amicable terms.
When we left the ocean in California 3 years ago to come back to our house in Scottsdale and remodel it, I had a lot of plans, which have almost all been realized. But now that it’s finished, it will be enjoyed by someone else.
The Tuscan, wine country flagstone patio I built outside the picture window of my kitchen with a corner fountain and planter boxes filled with roses and lavender & herbs was a joy for me to take my laptop out and work from in the summer mornings. The covered patio out the French doors of the dining room was a great spot to sit on the outdoor sofa and have my morning tea even on the coldest winter mornings with the sun warming me as I watched the hummingbirds go from flower to flower.
The other flagstone patio with the chaise lounges looking over the pool was shaded in the morning by a big pine tree and on the other side protected from the summer afternoon sun by a big weeping acacia-another perfect place to sit any time of day, listening to the waterfall from the pool.
And then in the very back corner is a small patio under a big old pine tree with a bench that’s a private and quite place to sit for a totally different perspective when you just need a new idea.
Sitting, looking out the picture window of my office I have one of my 3 area with Calla Lillies and Jasmine. Just about every window and door is flanked by either Jasmine or Gardenias so the scent of flowers is always present inside and out.
So, I planted this week knowing that someone else would be spending time enjoying the flowers I so purposefully planned, as I move on to the next phase of my life. I know the buyers of my house will love all the little touches that meant so much to me. And it makes me happy to think of the joy my flowers will bring to the new owners of my home every time they look out a window or walk outside.