Sweet Annie has been in the news lately and we’re getting so many emails and calls and questions about sweet annie.
Kim’s been telling me for 2 weeks that I need to write a blog about how “I” came to know about Sweet Annie…
It seems I was one of the first ones in our immediate area that found it and realized it’s great worth. I first found Sweet Annie at The Clay Pot in Reidland, Ky about 15-18 years ago.
The Clay Pot used to be the most adorable junk/garden shop in the world in my opinion.
I spent so much time there in the spring and early summer that Debbie and I became close friends and I sent her so much business she was always giving me something super duper grand.
She gave me that old bicycle with the double baskets that sets at the top of our lane behind the mailbox.
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And that old cupboard on our back porch that you can barely see in the photo in my facebook cover photo?
THAT came from the Clay Pot and oh my goodness. I was always wagging some piece of priceless junk home from Debbie’s.
In the spring for 3 weeks…Debbie would always have an Herb Festival and she’d have people come to hold classes on this and that pertaining to gardening and herbs. The classes were only $2 each and you could attend as few or many as you wanted. Some were in little sheds on her property…some were just held under trees in her Secret Garden and we’d sit on blankets while we were told how to build the perfect Grandmother’s Garden or whatever. I was in my glory when it was Herb Festival time at the Clay Pot.
Early on…Debbie introduced me to Sweet Annie Herb by giving me a few plants at one of her Herb Festivals. I immediately fell in love with it and each spring she’d order me trays of seedlings and I’d plant a Sweet Annie forest in our back yard.
FINALLY I realized I had so much coming up all over our property I didn’t need to order any and I’d just take up my own little seedlings and transplant that.
During the year Kim and I had the booth at the I-24 antique mall…Sweet Annie pretty much paid for our booth space all by itself. Either in fresh seedlings in the spring and summer or as dried sweet annie in the fall and winter.
They’d tell us at the antique mall that people would come to the counter and ask “Where’s that heavenly aroma coming from ?” And it was from our Sweet Annie in our booth way in the back corner of the 3rd room of the mall. 🙂
We were having a geezer bonfire gathering one fall about 3 years ago and we were all sitting on our back porch and I had hung some sweet annie to dry down the sides of one of my cupboards on the back porch…and one of the old geezers said “WHAT is that sweet SMELL…I LOVE that?”
MY geezer began to explain that if he lived in the canyon he wouldn’t have to ask that question because there is always the aroma of Sweet Annie in the air HERE.
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They all had such a fit about it…I sent some home with each of them.
I’ve put tiny bouquets of sweet annie just tied with a sage green ribbon in a gazillion gift bags over the years and I’ve given literally hundreds of tiny seedlings away. When Geezer is about to mow he’ll say “I’m going to mow today if you want to pull up your little sweet annie seedlings” 🙂
The winter was rough on my sweet annie this year but I had a little to get me started again and Kim literally has it running out her EARS at the House on Pooh Corner…So we’re going to have tons again this year.
But now Sweet Annie is in the news as a possible up and coming HUGE cancer cure. And several have sent me the article but I’ve been so swamped with helping Geezer with the bedroom and gardening and general dailies of housekeeping and bible school prep…
I haven’t had time to read those articles yet…but I will soon.
Last night I was at a ladies meeting with the ladies at church and we had it at Shannon’s house and when I got home Geezer said “Bro Jake called and there was a lady down at the church looking for you to ask you about Sweet Annie..” SO I have her phone number and I’m going to call her this morning.
Sweet Annie is one of those things that once you’ve had it…you just don’t ever want to be without it…
Well I could talk all day about sweet annie….but we have a busy day ahead and I’ve got to get with it. I think Kim’s going to have Sweet Annie at her house again this year for those that want some…but I’ll let you know. We’re both working so many hours these days we hardly have time to look up…but we’ll see.
Gotta get busy…Peace and love from the canyon…I love you all gobs and thanks so much…for stopping by!
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