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Monday, April 12, 2010

April gardens: the ultimate comeback kid.







Just for fun, I wandered around my yard today and took photos of all the plants blooming.(Okay it was really a week ago. Blame in on those worms.) A spring garden is my favorite, because the plants are so forgiving. They are a little like teenagers: love them but give them space, and they become even more beautiful.

Most of these plants are shade-tolerant natives, a good choice for the hardwood forest habitat of western Tennessee. In case these plants are new to you, here are their names: wild blue phlox, woodland poppies, wisteria, wjacob's lader, foamflowers, columbine, snowdrops,spiderwort, and dogwood.
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My name is Pam, and I live in Memphis, Tennessee, with my husband, Tony, our cat, Sami, and our dog, Griffin. I tried to start a vegetable garden two summers ago. I bought two tomato stakes for a quarter at a yard sale and threw them over a teal blue pot in my courtyard. That's as far as I got. Last summer, I did better, growing a number of vegetables with mixed success. This year, I doubled the size of my garden and continue to be inspired by my CSA from Whitton Farms, my daughter who always wanted me to grow vegetables, and my grandfather, who once burned down some of the woods behind Aunt Jeanne's house so he could make his vegetable garden even bigger.
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