As your parents always told you, you can’t recapture time.
The closest you can come is to work on building memories. You
can recapture those, and they only get better as time moves
on.

This is probably the most important thing you can do today:
make a memory with someone that will last a lifetime. Making
a video of your little one chasing the pigeons in the park is
something she can show her children.

A Family
Affair

Planting a tree or a long-lasting shrub can create memories
just like that. Can you go to a place today and show your
children where your father or mother helped you plant a tree? If
so, the tree has grown, and so has the memory that accompanies
it.

Plant a garden. Capture (mentally, or on film) the expression
of the little ones when they harvest their own Halloween
pumpkin.
Who knows? They may even eat spinach if they grow it.

The memory of that phone call or television show is fleeting.
But growing things with your family will create life-long
memories.
And fall is a great time for growing things.

Planting
Advice

Here are just a few of the many opportunities available to
you. You can find these information sources on the World Wide
Web. Or just pick them up at your county office of the
University
of Georgia Extension Service.

* Fast Growing Shade Trees (http://www.ces.uga.
e
du/pubcd/L350.htm).

* Growing Dogwoods (http://www.ces.u
g
a.edu/pubcd/l104-w.html).

* Selection, Production and Establishment of Wetland
Trees
and Shrubs (http://www.ces.
u
ga.edu/pubcd/b1082-w.html).

* Xeriscape: A Guide to Developing a Water-Wise
Landscape
(http://www.ces.uga
.
edu/pubcd/B1073.htm).

* Wildflowers (http://www.ces.ug
a
.edu/pubcd/B994-W.HTM).

* Environmental Enhancement with Ornamental Plants:
Attracting
Birds (http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/horticulture/birds.html)
.

* Environmental Enhancement with Ornamentals: Butterfly
Gardening (http://www.ces.uga.edu/Agriculture/horticulture/butterfly.h
t
ml).

* Growing Vegetables Organically (http://www.ces.
u
ga.edu/pubcd/b1011-w.html).

You can’t recapture time. Plan something today that will grow
a memory when you and your family look back in two, 10 or more
years. The time to plant your memory is now.