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  • Mother Earth Gardener

    Readers share tales of treasured family plants.

    Dec 08, 2017 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.

    PRECIOUS ‘PRETORIA’

    My mother was gifted an array of lovely ‘Pretoria’ canna lilies (Canna i ndica) by her granddaughter-in-law. Having catered to her garden in Anderson, South Carolina, for many years, my mother was delighted to give these canna lilies all the attention she could.

    I can still picture the joy on her

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