When my mom and dad bought this property in 1959 they purchased two city lots, our house sits in the middle so we have plenty of space for my mom's flowers she planted at that time. Now most of her flowers, fruits, etc are gone, but some survived. The roses, and the grape vines are still intact, and the Weeping Bottle Brush tree is still with us. Most of the oak trees, and the iron tree and the rain tree is still here. We have plenty of yard, to plant more flowers, and wild flowers, in various places. My mother's white rose bush is still bearing roses even today. The Mr. Lincoln rose bush was killed by my nephew
and I'm still ticked off about that incident. Those were planted when we moved into the house in early January 1960.
My two brothers are living in this house and the one closest in age to me, has started to reclaim what we had as far as flowers are concerned. He said the other day he has ordered me some flowers that are supposed to attract the butterflies back. I hope they do because I miss seeing them in the yard.