White Garden

White Garden Reveal

White Garden Reveal

Here’s a reminder of how it looked before (for the last seven years, and the three years before we owned it): And now, right before sunrise: Can you see the edible plants? No? Good. Most of my neighbors don’t, either. I’ll point them out in more pictures. Another great change is that we went from one…

1000 Flowers

1000 Flowers

When I told my neighbors I was planting thousands of flowers in my small front yard, they looked at me in disbelief. Most people put in a few flowering perennials here and consider their yard done–if they have any flowers at all. Annuals are rare here, and bulbs are almost complete strangers in our rock-landscaped…

Front Garden Update

Front Garden Update

Neighbors I’ve never met before are starting to talk to me. “Stunning!” one man said to my husband and I last week as he came down the street to get his mail. “It’s really beautiful!” said another man. A woman stopped her car in the middle of the road, rolled down her window, and yelled out that…