Flora

I started gardening around the age of 12. I have a degree in horticulture and took a year or 2 of agricultural science in school before I ran off to start working in garden centers and wholesale greenhouses so I could play around with plants every day for about 10 years. The only problem I found with my plan was that when you work in the horticulture industry year round your busiest work days are right in prime planting time so I never managed to get too much done in my own garden other than some container gardening.

Then a few years ago I met my husband and he asked me to move up to the tiny town in the mountains where he taught. Now I have my first real garden all to myself along with enough time to tend it (seeing as I now work in a library that has much less “spring based” hours). We moved into our house in May of 2007 and I spent that year cleaning out and taming the old gardens on the property. There was about 1/4 acre of overgrown plants that had not been cared for in over 20 years so I am still working at it. At one time it looks like it may have been a beautiful garden…I just have to find it underneath all of the weeds and overgrown trees :-).