I’m a 36 year old artist, organic gardener, and mom to a five year old boy. I grow a lot of edibles, which are incorporated into the rest of my gardens. I like to think of my gardens as cottage style gardens with minds of their own! I love growing things that attract birds, butterflies, amphibians. I live right in town, but our backyard is our very own little wildlife habitat!
One of my gardens is home to several box turtles, and our two desert tortoises roam around the rest of the backyard – thus, all of the gardens have 2 foot high fences around them… a tortoise will make a lovely meal out of anything you’ve planted!
I garden in a completely organic fashion. I’ve never even used organic pesticides, etc. Birds are my favourite pest eradicators!
Gardens
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back garden
Zone 4 smallish rectangular plot - about half sun, half shade.
- 20 plants
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front yard herb garden
Zone 4 smallish rectangular bed in front of house
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herbs and butterflies garden
Zone 4 These photos are from last year. This year, I've added more butterfly plants on the sunny side - milkweeds, fennel, buddleia, lantana, etc. I mov...
- 5 plants
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main veggie garden
Zone 4 mostly veggies in here, but also gladioli, marigolds, zinnias, strawberries, etc.
- 3 plants
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north alley garden
Zone 4 smaller rectangular plot along back alley fence
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out by the road garden
Zone 4 smallish rectangular plot along the road in front of the house
- 3 plants
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south alley garden
Zone 4 smallish rectangular plot next to back alley fence. half sun, half shade.
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south of house garden
Zone 4 very hot garden alongside south side of house - gets a ton of sun.
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stock tank pond garden
Zone 4 400 gal. stock tank - ghetto pond! :)
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I love to grow
heirloom tomatoes, Asian veggies, lots of colourful flowers - anything that doesn't need much babying
Hobbies
painting, drawing, sewing, yoga, birdwatching, thrifting, hiking, camping



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