‘People typically associate spring blooms with mothers and Mother’s Day, but plants make me think of my dad’
I waited impatiently this spring for the weather to warm and the ground to thaw, eyeing a small patch on my front lawn where I hoped a tiny shoot would emerge, letting me know Dad’s honeysuckle bush made it through the winter.
But when I arrived at their house one visit to find all the greenery had been unceremoniously dumped at the curb without explanation, the truth echoed loudly in the silence: Dad was now too sick to care for his plants and no one expected him to get better. The cuttings didn’t take. During my next visit to Toronto, I tried again. Dad was by then too weak to leave his bedroom so I did it myself, harvesting a couple dozen clippings like I had seen Dad do, and this time putting the ends in a container of water for the drive home to Ottawa.
The fall and winter passed and rarely did I remember to water the bucket. In the spring, when my thoughts turned to yard work, I realized it had been a particularly long time since I had checked the honeysuckle cuttings. Peering into the bucket, I found soil so dried and cracked it had hardened into clay – and, astonishingly, exactly one clipping that had survived.
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