I think I'll bloom my blog today

I have come to love gardening this year, so imagine my joy when googling my first name (since it is unusual and I have never really found any association with it) and finding THIS- meet the Christia obcordata...

I've never thought of myself as a flower- I'm not exactly delicate. A weed? Nah, not THAT obnoxious and intrusive. But a house plant? And one that is known for its butterfly-looking markings and shape? I like it. That's fitting for who I am- I love the meaning of "home" and the symbolism associated with butterflies has increasingly become fitting for the changes in my life. I'm happy to share my namesake with this lovely species.

Gardens are a form of autobiography.
~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993