AKWindWatcher
Jan Jones, of Jan's Country Garden, has Alzheimer's. It is so sad to see her declining so rapidly. She lives about 10 minutes from me and we have been friends for 30+ years. Interestingly, we share a birthday, 20 years apart. I used to help her dig and divide in the fall and plant in the spring. The last year she grew dahlias was the year she broke her back and she left all the plants in the ground over winter and most of them did not make it. Her gardens were gorgeous. She grew over 500 different dahlia varieties. One of her care-givers now grows a hundred or so plants that I gave back to them a couple of years ago. Jan no longer remembers any of the variety names, but her eyes light up when she see the blossoms and she says they are all beautiful.
