My gardens now.
I have peonies, irises, hollyhocks, cosmos, zinnias, blanket flowers, meadow sage, 2 butterfly bushes, clasping coneflowers, purple coneflowers, flax, bachelor buttons, etc.
How I share my love of gardening with others?
I do still life photography with my flowers and I create encouraging cards with some of my results. You can see some of my results at http://versesphotos.blogspot.com
Who or what inspired me to garden.
I had friends who allowed me to come and go as I photographed their flowers. When I moved out of the city, that forced me into more of still life photography and THAT forced me to garden so I could have a ready abundance of blossoms.
How I learned to garden.
By wanting to have a somewhat steady supply of flowers to photograph, I found myself collecting books and magazines on gardens. I then found a place where I could purchase garden seeds wholesale. A neighbor down the road has given me a few plants, but he has now since moved. Since I've only been in this location for 3 summers, my garden is very much in the early stages. We just put up an east fence so next year I can start planting flowers along the fence.
Lessons learned
- I do better at planting seeds than by transplanting plants. So I buy flower seeds wholesale.
- Many perennial flowers which you plant by seed bloom late their first season which can be kinda confusing. Since my flax bloomed its first year late in the summer and up until frost, I thought it would be like that this year. Wrong. The flax I planted last year bloomed from late spring/early summer. If I had planted a fresh supply of flax seeds this spring, I would have had a fresh crop of flax blossoms later in the season.
