Relax, and stroll through my Iowa perennial gardens!
Yes!!! I love flowers...so much so that I started a part-time home business to support my hobby and ran it for about 5 years.! The first thing you'll find me doing as the snow melts is to rush out each morning to check my beds, to see what little green thing may have appeared overnight. As the weather warms, I'm digging, splitting and potting perennials and designing or redesigning beds. In the summer, I am busy transplanting, weeding, mulching and maintaining my beds. As fall approaches a whole new series of blooms start, especially the asters, which attract the hundreds of migrating Monarch Butterflies that pass through!
Gardening is a fulfilling hobby, as you can see from the following pictures. I enjoy helping to beautify God's green earth, and derive a lot of satisfaction from encouraging others to plant perennials as well.
So please take a stroll through my gardens, and enjoy! I realize the photos take a while to load, and my scanning skills are not the best, but I hope you'll find it worth it. Thanks for stopping by!
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My "Girls"...Carrie and Emma, also known as the "Z"
girls, who worked with me for 4 years
while they were in junior high and high school. I could not have had a
business without them.
They were wonderful workers and we had many good times. We DO clean up well,
even though we
didn't look so hot right after weeding muddy beds! Thank you so much,
girls!
