Garbage Garden escorted Outside

We are garbage gardeners. I freely admit that we save seeds, and plant pineapple tops. This year we planted butternut and acorn squash, corn, pumpkin, and gourds -- all from saved seeds. We even have a mini orchard of assorted apple trees scattered about the yard. All started from discarded cores. This morning, I escorted our over wintering guests, the pineapples, the Night Blooming Sirius (NBS) and the avocado tree, to their outside summer homes, the back steps and swing set platform.
They are all huge. All required that I ease their massive foliage gingerly through the door. Just looking at the pineapple I wonder how those 3 foot fronds were contained on our tiny window seat. A space it shared with its ever expanding neighbor, the NBS.

Of course, the NBS isn't from the garbage. I got a cutting in the Fall of 1984 -- my first semester in Grad school. I guess some people equate graduate school with garbage. In the end I have a very nice diploma that hangs over a hole in the dining room wall and a plant that has bloomed twice in 24 years. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will bloom again this year. I think it's due.

(If you look closely you might noticed the avocado is a bit of a garbage gardener too. At its base are two baby tomato seedlings. Honestly, I don't know how they got there...)