“I have some sad news to share about my mom, Cora. She passed away peacefully at home on February 24, 2024, after a wonderful day spent conversing with family and friends. I am grateful we could fulfill her wish to be home during her final moments.

My mom was a great lover of flowers, and her garden, full of blooms, inspired the creation of my “From Cora’s Garden.” She loved that I shared her garden with you. But now I’m the caretaker of her garden and trying my best to keep it abloom.

I wanted to share the latest blooms in the garden.

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This geranium was one of her last flower purchases, and it’s enjoying the cool, wet winter we are having. It’s presently in the plastic pot from the shop. My goals is to transplant it into that cement pot it sitting.

Her phalaenopsis abloom. I don’t know what I’m doing right but three them have buds or blooms on it. The one in back is a gift from Christmas and the front, is a save from the distress rack from the garden shop, her favorite place to shop. She is the plant whisper.

The plumeria is from a cutting from one of her caregivers and just started to bloom this year. She wanted a minature plumeria to make it like a bonsai. I still haven’t gotten a cutting to take.

Mom’s bougainvillea plants are always blooming. This one is doing exceptionally well.

Mom always saves her poinsetta from Christmas and gets them to rebloom the next year. She always said to trim it back hard on months that start with an “A”. This unusual bloom is probably from lack of one trim and probably needs and transplant.