>On Friday Kyna posted an entry where she wrote this:
We planted it on our first wedding anniversary, so I have a very soft spot in my heart for this tree.
Now, I’m a big softy, as is my husband, and as we got married just 15 days ago, this obviously started some thoughts in my head. First of all, should I get my husband something along these lines for our first anniversary? (Because you might as well plan ahead, right?) And second of all, my uncles and aunts wanted to send us a bouquet for our wedding, but my sensible mother decided – correctly – that the money would be better spent by depositing it in our dedicated honeymoon account. However, if they wanted to give us flowers, then perhaps we should indulge them. After all, the price of a bouquet will not get you far on a honeymoon, whereas it might get you a couple of nice roses or shrubs.
So I ask you, the few people who read this:
What should I get for the garden to commemorate our wedding?
>Aw, I miss the newness of being married 😀 Glad our idea was inspiring, and congratulations! :)I always think that live plants are better and longer-lasting presents than bouquets. Don't get me wrong though, I love a beautiful bouquet now and then! I don't know what your favourite trees or shrubs are, but I think you two should definitely plant one! I picked a long-living variety, a very strong tree (oh, how symbolic I am lol ). Unless someone in the future gets happy with a chainsaw (which I hope they don't!), our magnolia tree will still be growing 200 years from now. And it will be huge lol.I think the purchase of a small new tree shouldn't leave too large a dent in your honeymoon account 😉
>I'm sure I would be much more aware of our newly-wed status, were it not for the fact that I live in Denmark whereas my husband is expatriated to Scotland… As it is, it's sort of hard to remember to say "husband", rather than "boyfriend", when we're not even living in the same time zone…And yes, a tree or shrub is definitely nicely within the budget, especially as we don't need anything that will grow big and impressive. (Heaven knows we've got enough large trees – not too many, but enough.) It might be something as simple as a willow hedge along the stream (which is basically going to be free, as willow cuttings aren't hard to come by for free), or perhaps something more ornamental like a shrub. I'm guessing, though, that either way it will need to wait until we've had a drain installed in the garden; it would be rather a bad omen to have the symbol of our marriage perish during a wet season… Though, of course, rather the symbol than the marriage itself!
>What about two shrubs, with foliage or flowers, one for each of you?
>Not trying to get off topic, but I'm wondering how you two met. Was it online, or on a trip? I met my husband online. Saw each other about every 3 or 4 months or so for awhile. Different time zones and different countries for us as well :)http://crystalcoastgardener.blogspot.com/2010/01/love-cancer-and-good-friends_23.htmlElephant's Eye has a good idea there! 😀
>We did, in fact, meet online, though at the time we were living a few miles from each other here in Copenhagen. It is only 3 months ago that he moved to Scotland for a 2-year expatriation… And as I have my job here, we decided it would be kind of silly for me to leave a perfectly good job to go to Scotland and take any job I could get, so there. It's only an hour an a half (and a gazillion CO2 molecules…) by plane.