We moved into our house three years ago, which is a ranch in a pretty normal neighborhood a fifteen-minutes’ walk from town. Two years ago Steve rototilled our front yard and turned it into a garden and a patio. Last year was the first year we really got to see the plants working with one another, and this year it really looks like a garden, with plants talking to one another, pushing up against one another. He’s mixed flowers with vegetables and fruits and trees, so it’s one big mess of color. He keeps asking permission to buy hundreds (and thousands) more dollars in bulbs and trees. It is where he always finds beauty.

We have pie pumpkins, giant pumpkins, lemon cucumbers, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, broccoli, tomatoes, basil, asparagus, carrots, blue potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, and corn. In the pots on the patio we have bananas, lemons, and limes, as well as an avocado tree that probably won’t bear fruit. He’s also planted echinacea, gooseneck loosestrife, roses, crazy poppies, alium, tulips and more tulips, irises, and lilies. There’s so much other stuff I can’t name. In one of the pictures below, there’s basil lining the walkway to our front door. It smells so good to come home.

August 18th, 2009 | Category: house | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL