Grocery Store Shamrock Meets Vintage Pot

Don't overlook the plant and flower offerings in your local grocery store.  Especially after a holiday.

These little sort of perennial-ish  shamrock like plants have become a favorite of mine.  When it gets warm out--they are very happy outside in dappled shade and bloom and bloom all summer long.  Dear Husbola, friend to leggy geranium and all tender plants -- usually rescues the pots of these shamrocks from our yard and over winters them in his office.  And the following spring--I pull out all the dead bits--and they are ready for summer action again.  They also come in a gorgeous leaf shade of dark purple.

This little treasure is sitting happily in a 1900s french lavender waxed cardboard pot. The pot says, Miel De Haute Provence aux Fleurs de Lavande.  A. Terrasson, Apicuiteur.   Riez.

Now Mr. Terrasson raises his bees in Riez France.  Riez also means "laugh."  It certainly makes me smile.