By: Kim Charles
Tom from Minnesota , shares highlights from his bungalow - inspired garden .
" This past February and again in August , I had back surgery that keep me from doing ANYTHING in the garden . Much well now ! This preceding summertime the garden pretty much took aid of itself ( a bigTHANKS to my neighbor Carol , who volunteered to weed the front garden ) . I also ascertain an article from Fine Gardening , march how to divide Lady Slippers . I ’ll try that next year ! It ’s a beautiful Fall daylight here in Arden Hills , MN and I ’m look forward to next Spring . "
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The only sunflower seedlings to survive the spring hail storm.

Monarch butterfly on Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’.

Ligularia ‘The Rocket’ behind hosta.

Front porch deck where I spent summer reading and enjoying the garden.

Rudbeckia and wren house.

Ajuga ‘Chocolate Chip’ on the terrace, with a beautiful annual container in the foreground–no more cutting grass.

Hemerocallis ‘Crimson Shadows' daylily in the foreground, rudbeckia in back.

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