My mother had a gift... she could communicate with nature... yes! she had the most amazing "green thumb" she could make even a "silk rose" bloom (figure of speech). She had the most beautiful garden in our neighborhood, people would often stop by just to admire all the amazing and unique plants she had and she had a name that suited them all very well!.  My mother had the most unique gift of being able to grow anything from a rose to just about any plant!. She would spend her time all day outside in her beautiful garden and she would not come in till the late hours of the night! the more she spent working on her garden the happier she was. I remember laughing at all the crazy names to all her plants she had and the crazy thing was that every plant's name was characterized with something about that certain plant.. example>> "the pregnant onion" lol yea it was a small plant that looked like a wild onion but at the base of it was a huge round ball that had a covering just like an onion! and underneath the coverings if you'd peel away the layers of covering to your surprise you'd find these tiny seeds that look alot like tiny M&Ms attached to that round ball that looked like an actual onion. and another crazy thing was that the onion looking plant would grow bent back with its belly sticking out like a pregnant woman's stomach.. and its babies (seeds) would be on top of its tummy (the onion looking part).  Oh she had tons of wierd names to different plants.. like "mother-in-law fingers" plant, the "possum tail" plant, the "pencil cactus" and many many more! The month she passed away her garden got sad and it stopped blooming, it was as if they felt her absence (tears).  But the most amazing thing happened just a year after she passed, before the year was gone one day we had gone to her house my husband and I and we noticed that all her roses were in bloom!!! and it wasnt even the time for them to bloom! we went out into her garden and i mean EVERYTHING was blooming! it was a rainbow of color! she had every color of roses she could find! and they were all blooming! but sadly that was the only year they bloomed after that year till this day her garden dried up and got sad no matter how much we tended to it and nurtured it those roses and greenery just wouldnt give blooms anymore! I believe she took her garden with her and she has it beautifully arranged around her mantion! 

She loved talking to her plants shed always tell me "mija you have to talk to them they have life and they need nurturing too." and when she'd talk to her plants they'd always respond to her love by blooming so beautifully for her!. OH i could go on and on about her love for flowers and plants and gardens! but what i remember most is the joy in her eyes and in her spirit when she was one with her garden! Oh mamma how i miss you! id give anything to see you again! i know that