Dahlias, Gladiolas, Roses, Snapdragons and other summer flowers fill my garden in a rainbow profusion of life and natural splendor. Building and maintaining a garden is difficult labor of love, and the blossoms that swarm with hummingbirds and honeybees through the heady flower scented air are the fruits of that labor.
My family planted this new flower garden on our small farm here in Pacific Northwest this spring as a way to distract ourselves from all the terrible things going on in the world. I did the work digging it out and hauling in the dirt - the dirt is actually the result of the goat droppings that we compost and use for soil around the farm. My sister chose most of the flowers and did most of the planting. We're planning to expand it again over the winter and add stone paths.
