I Wish, I Wish
We are in the nursery, landscape and garden center business so our job is to design, grow, sell, install and maintain our customers’ yards; a job we love. A little stressful when we see plants struggling in this heat, a fungus developing in the middle of a green lawn or, gasp, weeds. Weeds is a four letter word - with an s at the end. When I waited tables in college and someone said they were ‘in the weeds’ that meant they were way behind and needed help, so even outside the garden industry, weeds are a bad thing! We own 25 plus acres and try to keep our weeds to the naturalized area, away from the nursery, which where I sometimes see deer and turkey, so one evening I took my camera to look for something interesting to snap a picture of. What I found were wildflowers, or weeds, to a maintained landscape. There was an abundance of delicate Queen Ann’s Lace, roadside asters, purple thistles and some strange reddish thing with green treadles, which was really cool.
