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  • Mother Earth Gardener

    Readers share tales of treasured family plants.

    Jun 01, 2018 4 minutes

    Send Us Your Stories We’re looking for readers’ stories about special plants passed down and shared for generations. We pay $25 for each story we publish and $25 for each photo we use. Please send your story and high-resolution photos, if available, to Letters@HeirloomGardener.com for a chance to be included in a future issue.

    FROM HOUSEHOLD PLANT TO MEMBER OF THE FAMILY

    In 2001, while I was stationed at Fort Drum in New York, a fellow soldier was getting ready to ship off for a deployment in Germany. She had an angel-wing begonia ( × ) planted in a coffee can. She had only two options: throw it out or give it

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