Old Order Mennonite Memoirs

On one of the many trips I took on my garden path to my little greenhouse this spring, I stopped dead in my tracks at what I saw. Seeing the first appearance of a fern leaf peony in my garden was a surprise but I did remember planting it last summer after Karen Bassler brought it to me. A gentleman by the name of John Young had dropped it off at the Herald office as a gift for me. In his note with the fern leaf peony, Mr. Young said he likes to share of the somewhat rare flower that was in his family since the Civil War and was brought from Kansas. He said it might get frostbitten, but it didn...