GERDA'S FLOWERS

                                                          GERDA'S FLOWERS

                                                        Gerda's Columbine Ancestors

                                                    Ancestors of Gerda's Blue Bells

In the late 1920's, my grandparents, Carl and Gerda Johnson realized their dream, bought a farm in Shelley, Idaho and built a home about a mile east of the city.  Gerda loved flowers and proceeded to plant some of her favorites as soon as the house was built.  The descendants of those flowers are still growing in my garden in Sandy, Utah.  One is a purple columbine, and the other we called "bluebells".  It is fun to see these flowers come back each year in my garden, as they have been doing for 90 years.  It is a living tie to my grandmother Gerda Hanson Johnson.