Cait's Garden

Welcome to my blog! I decided to start this blog while hoeing my vegetable garden the other day. After three hours in the sun with a hoe, the mind starts to wander. And it wandered to a place where I have an outlet for all my hard-won knowledge and enthusiasm for backyard gardening. I am a flower addict. I have never met a perennial I didn’t like and want. When I moved in to my house from an apartment, there were no flowers in the backyard and I wasn’t even aware I liked gardening. Seven years later, there is no doubt I am a gardener.  I have more than 100 different kinds of perennials in my yard, as well as dozens of shrubs, and yes, the aforementioned tiny veggie patch. I have had many triumphs and more than a few failures. Perhaps some of you will nod knowingly as I relate these stories. Perhaps you might even get an idea or two from what I have learned. The growing season in Northwest Illinois is just beginning and I hope to keep blogging as the summer unfolds. Welcome and thanks for visiting!