Why I'm Here

I've been interested in gardening since we bought our first house and I was tasked with keeping up on the massive gardens there. The previous owner was a full-time gardener with no children, and she had some pretty extensive beds. I really liked her cottage-style designs, but it was all I could do to weed and feed the plants since I had a full-time job with a long commute.

Our next house was in the city and that was my first attempt at creating garden spaces. I'll post pictures of that project another time, and it's still a work in progress since we own the house and rent it out. Our tenants maintain the gardens so I don't really have a hand in how they look now, but that will change at some point.

We bought our current house in November of 2007. We are in a wooded setting with a pretty large lawn that we hope to reduce. The gardens here are overgrown and crowded, and many of the evergreens are way too big for the spaces they were planted in. We have been slowly plucking away at things, transplanting here and there, refining spaces and cleaning things up.

This fall's big project will be to create foundation beds in front of the house and do some work on the huge "island" garden in the middle of our front lawn. So I've been obsessively researching and sketching out ideas. I hope to write about the planning and progress here, and of course post lots of pictures.