
learning to garden | tips for beginners like me
Let me start off by saying that I have never been a gardener. I would look with envy at beautiful yards, edged, green, blossoming, arranged in wild perfection. I never “got” gardening. It was too unpredictable and high maintenance and required too much patience for me. When you drove up to our house, it was pretty evident that we were “inside people” and I always felt like I needed to preface our house with, “just wait until you get inside…” When we put our house on the market last year, our realtor felt the same way. She put out an “I’m Beautiful Inside” sign in the yard. That’s realtor speak for, “It’s gets better once you walk through the front door. Don’t pay attention to the pathetic attempt at flower boxes, the overgrown bushes and the bald spots in the grass.” As we’re nearing the completion of the inside of the









