Welcome......

Welcome to my backyard. Designed for comfort, ease of care and of course, beauty, the open gate leads the way to the sunny back. I built my gardens one bed at a time, using whatever I could find to enrich the soil, create the borders and mulch the beds. After 17 years the result is peaceful, colorful and refreshing.

Note the pathway. When developers were removing some old sidewalks, I was able to take home the broken pieces and laid my own pathway. All it cost me was my labor! I simply dug out the path and settled them in as I pleased. I filled in the cracks with some of the native soil and did not insist on perfection. The result is a casual surface that adds character to the yard. This is common sense home gardening and is not intended to rival a professional landscaper's version of a path. I wanted dry feet on the way to the patio and that's what I got. For years I just used a hoe on the weeds that popped up between the slabs. I do use a bit of weed killer now and then, when the weeds are small and numerous.