In Memory

 

I began my gardening project with a neglected flower bed at the front of my house. I enlarged it.

Before Tom died, I promised him that I would always create a garden in his memory, and I have done so here at the house which I purchased 9 months after his death when I moved across the country from where we had last lived together. Tom and I gardened for 41 years together, and every plant I plant reminds me of the love of gardening that we shared.

I am still working on landscaping the front yard, removing plants, adding plants. It's a work of love.

Japanese lilies, miniature gladiolus, amyrillis, daylilies, etc., in the enlarged entrance-way garden bed

I had someone build the garden seat for me, but I did all the landscaping myself.

The small pond is an experiment.

The garden seat is surrounded by herbs (thymes, garlic chives) peppers, native yarrow, native coral honeysuckle, scarlet runner beans.